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!

We offer a PhD project within our International Max Planck Research School "Chemical Communication in Ecological Systems" on "Metabolic exchanges, regulation and equilibrium of an ancient insect symbiosis" (Project 5). Please share, inform & apply here: www.ice.mpg.de/129183/imprs

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...

Exciting debut on Bluesky! 🎉Our lab's latest publication on the evolution of host- and symbiont-encoded digestive enzymes in herbivorous leaf beetles has just been published. Read the full story @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.028 📸 S.sumptuosa by Roy Kirsch & Veit Grabe