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  1. 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

  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. 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

  4. 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

  5. @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
  6. #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

  7. #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

  8. #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

  9. #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

  10. #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

  11. 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.