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  "id": 10892853,
  "title": "Phenotypic divergence is driven by mobile genetic elements in a heritable insect symbiont",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/phenotypic-divergence-is-driven-by-mobile-genetic-elements-in-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-21T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2607226123?af=R"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 39, September 2026. SignificanceHeritable symbionts can rapidly reshape host ecology, yet the mechanisms generating phenotypic variation among natural populations remain poorly understood. Although some symbiont-conferred traits are encoded on plasmids and phages, whether ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}