Many insects live in symbiosis with certain species of bacteria. These bacteria make important contributions to their hosts' ...

Plants and microbes often have a symbiotic relationship, relying on each other for nutrients or shelter. Understanding and ...

Research Highlight Published: 01 August 2016 Microbiomes Symbionts — in it for the long run Bryony Jones Nature Reviews Genetics 17, 502 (2016) Cite this article ...

To the point Reduced symbiont genomes: The symbionts of reed beetles have greatly reduced genomes with very few genes. Needs-based gene regulation: The symbionts adapt their gene expression to the ...

Symbiotic bacteria that live permanently with a host and are connected to its metabolism lose many genes over the course of ...

One such example is the symbionts of reed beetles, which retain a very small genome containing only genes important for beetle development. Interestingly, the beetle larvae and adults have different ...

As ocean temperatures set new heat records, coral reef scientists are on a mission to identify which species and reefs can ...

We tested this hypothesis by using molecular approaches to locate the symbionts within hosts and to conduct host-symbiont cophylogenetic analyses.Methodology. Universal primers were used to amplify ...

More information: Jessica H. Mitchell et al, Co-expression analysis reveals distinct alliances around two carbon fixation pathways in hydrothermal vent symbionts, Nature Microbiology (2024).

The scientists now reconstructed the phylogenies of different beewolf species and their symbionts. An analysis of the beewolf phylogeny revealed that the symbiosis with Streptomyces first originated ...

Strategic symbionts Strategic alliances are becoming more interesting and more important We are probably all familiar with the biologists’ term symbiosis, when organisms live in close proximity to ...