#symbionts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #symbionts, aggregated by home.social.
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Baby #bugs must play game of roulette to find survival partners before time runs out https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/14/leaffooted-bugs-symbiosis
"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"
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Baby #bugs must play game of roulette to find survival partners before time runs out https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/14/leaffooted-bugs-symbiosis
"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"
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Baby #bugs must play game of roulette to find survival partners before time runs out https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/14/leaffooted-bugs-symbiosis
"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"
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Baby #bugs must play game of roulette to find survival partners before time runs out https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/05/14/leaffooted-bugs-symbiosis
"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"
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Leaf beetles' evolutionary success linked to gene transfer and symbiosis https://phys.org/news/2025-01-leaf-beetles-evolutionary-success-linked.html
"Almost all #LeafBeetles have incorporated foreign genetic material into their genome, which is responsible for the production of #enzymes necessary to digest plant cell wall components... half of the species of leaf #beetles live in close association with symbiotic #bacteria. These #symbionts provide the beetles with important digestive enzymes, vitamins, and amino acids."
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Advanced genetic techniques and #microscopy offer new insights into anaerobic ciliate and methanogen #symbiosis https://phys.org/news/2024-10-advanced-genetic-techniques-microscopy-insights.html
Methanogenic #symbionts of anaerobic #ciliates are host and habitat specific https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/18/1/wrae164/7737421 #ISEPpapers by @joro
"This study provides a clearer understanding of how anaerobic ciliates have evolved a mix transmission mode to both maintain and replace their symbionts over time"
#microbes #protists #bacteria #archaea #methanogenesis #biology
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Scientists discover more #mitochondria-like #symbionts with surprising metabolic capacities https://phys.org/news/2024-12-scientists-mitochondria-symbionts-metabolic-capacities.html
Genetic potential for aerobic respiration and #denitrification in globally distributed respiratory #endosymbionts https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54047-x
"They found a unique #bacterium that lives inside a ciliate (#protists) and provides it with energy... reminiscent of #mitochondria, with the key difference that the #endosymbiont derives energy from the respiration of nitrate, not oxygen."
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Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the destructive shipworm https://phys.org/news/2024-06-year-mystery-destructive-shipworm.html
First report of microbial #symbionts in the digestive system of #shipworms; wood boring mollusks https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964830524000878
"a population of symbiotic #microbes, living in an overlooked sub-organ of the gut called the #typhlosole, have the ability to secrete the #enzymes needed to digest #lignin—the toughest part of wood."
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Adult #coral can handle more heat and keep growing thanks to heat-evolved symbionts https://phys.org/news/2023-11-adult-coral-heat-evolved-symbionts.html paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16987
"The #algae used in this study had their heat tolerance bolstered in the lab by exposing multiple generations to elevated temperatures for 10 years... the #symbionts were able to maintain a #symbiosis with adult #corals for two years, promoting faster coral recovery from #CoralBleaching and enhancing their #HeatTolerance without trading off on growth."
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.@shelbilrussell &co reveal that wMel #Wolbachia bacterial #symbionts can enhance #FruitFly reproductive development in both mutant & WT flies; this phenotype is essential to long-term use of Wolbachia for host population control #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3QsX7Z5
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯
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Into 🕷️#spiders, #Wolbachia, #Cardinium, #Rickettsiaceae, and/or #Rhabdochlamydia 🦠 endosymbionts? We've got you covered! Paper now available at #MicrobialGenomicsJournal (@MicrobioSoc)
#genomics of five co-occurring #symbionts of the spider Oedothorax gibbosus
https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000943
@DOME_Vienna @RBINSmuseum @fhendrickx @stephkoe @tamara_retlah
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How cells gain control over their bacterial #symbionts https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cells-gain-bacterial-symbionts.html
Host-#symbiont interactions in #Angomonas deanei include the evolution of a host-derived dynamin ring around the #endosymbiont division site https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01776-6
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.