Figure 2.

Multiple bacteria isolates can transiently persist within individual D. discoideum fruiting bodies. We found bacteria associated with about one-third of the D. discoideum fruiting bodies isolated in this survey. Each individual fruiting body sorus positive for bacteria presence collected from either soil or feces environments contained from one to six bacteria isolates as shown in the above line graphs. The inset line graph quantifies the total number of bacteria isolates per fruiting body we isolated from all environments combined.