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  1. putzige kleine trompetchen, cladonia-flechten, ich vermute Trompeten-Becherflechte Cladonia fimbriata, kenne mich aber mit flechten nicht aus

    #lichensubscribe #flechten #nature #biodiversity #symbiont

  2. Baby #bugs must play game of roulette to find survival partners before time runs out frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/1

    "Leaffooted bugs nymphs hatch in the tree canopy, where their soil-living bacterial #symbionts are scarce. After hatching, a race against the clock begins. The journey from canopy to ground is a dangerous undertaking for nymphs measuring just a few mm. Risk of predation and the energetic demand are high. However, failing to acquire the #symbiont is also lethal"

    #Insects #Bacteria

  3. @peregrine57 thank you!

    If I remember correctly, the Jinal symbiont on #discovery’s season 5 was already considered exceptionally rare at 800 years old (and it was almost dying).

    There’s no way a 1070 years old #symbiont is strolling around like a 400 years old youngling.

    Or is it?

    #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #Dax #Trill
  4. #Deadwood consists of #ephemeral #biochoria, #temporary #habitats, with #decomposition by numerous specific #organisms, e.g. bacteria, #arthropods and most important diverse #fungi, some of which are shown below on a deadwood branch in #Berlin..#Fungus #Cremastra appendiculata seems being involved. L. Wang et al. (2024) studied this fungus as #symbiont supporting seeds of orchid #Cremastra #appendiculata to #germinate.

    ©#StefanFWirth 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.22541/au.173027710.

    #Photos
    ©S.F. Wirth

  5. Hansen‬ et al. study the evolution of bacterial symbionts of Pariaconus psyllids in Hawaii, demonstrating that island biogeography and host plant ecology shape symbiont losses and codiversification patterns.

    🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf153

    #genome #evolution #symbiont

  6. Some endosymbionts distort host sex ratios to favor their transmission. Cordaux and Gilbert publish a new Perspective showing how these manipulations can be driven by single symbiont loci targeting host sex-determination pathways.

    🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf110

    #genome #symbiont

  7. Great stuff! Good article!

    And one of the scientists in this article has the same last name as the fellow who came up with the "Alien" movie designs: Giger. Maybe they're like grandfather and the younger doctor in "Young Frankenstein".

    #Science #Symbiosis #Biology #Symbiont #HorrorMovie post.lurk.org/@mtchl/113894139

  8. Honey bees are a powerful system to probe host-gut #microbiota interactions. @a_chhun @PEngellab @YSchaerli &co engineer a native bacterial #symbiont of the #HoneyBee to non-invasively sense & report exposure to molecular cues inside the gut #PLOSBiology plos.io/3P8ioWJ

  9. Feats. form the #symbiont genomes suggest an early stage of reassignment and an ancestral propensity for the P. siddallii bacteria to undergo such a reassignment, e.g. the ancestral accumulation of 'UGA' codons in essential genes.

    Caught your attention? Go ahead and read it. 4/4

  10. Most surprisingly, we found that a "rare" genetic code reassignment (11->4) evolved in the #symbiont lineage associated to the mexican leech H. acuecueyetzin ("#leech" in Nahuatl). This reassignment means that the STOP #codon 'UGA' is now coding for TRP. 3/4

  11. We set to further explore the Providencia-Haementeria #symbiosis by expanding the genomic knowledge of this #symbiont. We found that similarly to other long-term vertically transmitted symbionts, the P. siddallii ancestor evolved a small gene-dense mobile element-free #genome 2/4

  12. You might have heard of #lucinidClams . Beautiful white clams that can be found at the beach, in #seagrass beds, or in #mangrove roots. Lucinids also colonize the #deepsea (e.g., cold seeps, hydrothermal vents). We compared #symbiont genomic potential across environments & found mostly shared functions. Yet, independent deep sea colonizations resulted in gene loss and symbiont switches. ping @jcamthrash @phylogenomics @maxplanckpress @AdrienneCorrea nature.com/articles/s41396-022

  13. How cells gain control over their bacterial #symbionts phys.org/news/2022-12-cells-ga

    Host-#symbiont interactions in #Angomonas deanei include the evolution of a host-derived dynamin ring around the #endosymbiont division site cell.com/current-biology/fullt

    Similar to #mitochondria and #chloroplasts, the #genome of the #bacterium is already reduced... The integration is sufficiently advanced for cell division to occur synchronously: When the host divides, so does the bacterium.

  14. [email protected]: #Symbiont researchers: Check who eats your #host ? Will symbionts survive passage through digestive system? Fish poop is hot spot for #Symbiodiniaceae #istmobiome

  15. Painting my #soulsnatcher for my #alienhive I got my wonderful and talented partner involved. And would you look at that - this color scheme is just amazing. So amazing in fact that I am sometimes thinking about adapting parts of it. :D

    #OnePageRules #grimmdarkfuture #wh40k #tyranids #genestealer #symbiont #miniaturepainting

  16. My #SnatcherLord sure got some company in my games of #grimmdarkfuture from #OnePageRules. These #soulsnatcher s (or #genestealer or #symbiont in #wh40k). I gave them varying tones of skin color to make them more fitting.

    #miniaturepainting #miniature #tabletopgaming

  17. Nifty new result in a three-way host-symbiont interaction: Herbivory modifies plant #symbiont number and impact on host #plant performance in the field doi.org/10.1111/evo.14641 #Evolution

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