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Insect Symbiosis Lab

@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social

News from the Insect Symbiosis Department 🪲🦠 , at the MPI for Chemical Ecology, on how insects and their symbionts adapt to challenges. Profile picture by Rebekka Janke

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Insect Symbiosis Lab@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How host and symbiont cells interface in intimately symbiotic associations is still poorly undersood. @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social and her team @inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social identifed now a complex network of membraneous tubules containing carbohydrates presumably feeding Sodalis symbionts of weevils!

INRAE UMR BF2I@inrae-umr-bf2i.bsky.social · 9mo ago

đź“Ł #OurLastPaper is out! And it's a major breakthrough that we're publishing in @cp-cell.bsky.social l: we've discovered architect bacteria that build complex structures to feed themselves better! #SymbioSky 1/5

Insect Symbiosis Lab@kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social for featuring the amazing beewolves again including our efforts to elucidate their unique microbial & chemical ecology. (Contributed by @tcsengl.bsky.social) and available here: schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

Protections and Interactions in the Beewolf Nursery

by Tobias Engl — Beewolves, their larvae, and their Streptomyces symbionts not only use multiple, largely different classes of chemical compounds to protect themselves against detrimental microbial co...

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