For the first time ever, a team led by Toby Hammer at University of Colorado Boulder has sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during metamorphosis. Congratulations on the publication of this exciting work!
See the full report here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0086995
