PLANTS - Amoebas farm bacteria and carry guards to protect their crops in the wild

Model organisms, brought into labs because they are easy to work with, adapt to the lab, often shedding characteristics that allowed them to survive in the wild. Scientists who work with model organisms rarely look at the wild strains, but when they do, they can be surprised by what they find ...

http://phys.org/news/2013-09-amoebas-farm-bacteria-crops-wild.htm