{
  "id": 725851,
  "title": "Stingless bees, turtle ants and tea plants are rich sources of undescribed Lactobacillaceae",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/stingless-bees-turtle-ants-and-tea-plants-are-rich-sources-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.12.744358v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Knowledge of the family Lactobacillaceae rests largely on isolates from foods and a few repeatedly sampled hosts. Reference databases give an unrecognised sequence the name of its nearest relative, so a lineage with no entry of its own is renamed rather than flagged. Here we classify the family across the public plant and invertebrate amplicon record to locate the hosts carrying undescribed…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}