Sentences with phrase «symbiotic microbes»

Only insects carry Wolbachia, but all animals have a range of symbiotic microbes.

In order to fully grasp the complexities of how symbiotic microbes might affect evolution, Bordenstein said, the fields of microbiology and evolutionary biology will have to form a symbiotic relationship of their own.

Without symbiotic microbes, the corals will die.

Carrie Arnold discusses the idea that symbiotic microbes help drive the evolution of their hosts (12 January, p 30).

The compound might help the animal defend against predatory fish, or it might actually be produced by symbiotic microbes living on the creature's surface.

Study finds common features in the genes retained since mitochondria evolved from symbiotic microbes.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

It's not yet clear whether symbiotic microbes led to the split between striped and spotted hyenas, but Theis said scientists now better understand the broad influence that microbes can have.

Diet, however, remains one of the main avenues through which symbiotic microbes populate an organism.

Preliminary findings suggest that the presence of certain symbiotic microbes alters the activity of genes that regulate the immune system.

Humans rely on their native microbiota for nutrition and resistance to colonization by pathogens [3 — 6]; furthermore, recent discoveries have shown that symbiotic microbes make essential contributions to the development, metabolism, and immune response of the host [7 — 10].

Meanwhile, Bordenstein and other scientists are working to determine exactly how symbiotic microbes can help split one species into two.

A graduate student in microbiology at Tel Aviv University in Israel at the time, Sharon thought that the flies» constellation of symbiotic microbes might be the cause of their change in behavior.

This benefits the caterpillar and the symbiotic microbe, but does not do much for the plant.

Far from being passive hangers - on, symbiotic microbes may shape the evolution of the plants and animals that play host to them

One theory is that the sponge's transparent framework collects the glow from luminescent, symbiotic microbes and concentrates it into a network of miniature spotlights that attract prey.

The symbiotic microbes present on and inside all larger organisms are notable among those that need specific habitats.

This could also work in reverse — the loss of some symbiotic microbes could increase the extinction risk of their hosts given their mutual interdependence, as has been suggested for some orchids and their mycorrhizal partners.

«What we think of as coral are really the animal host, symbiotic algae and symbiotic microbes all living together.

When Cary applied for the program at Scripps, his background with bivalves caught the attention of Horst Felbeck, one of the first to identify endosymbionts (symbiotic microbes that reside within the host cell) in vent clams and mussels.

The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.

Animals acquire their symbiotic microbes in a variety of ways, by touching things or from the very process of being born.

«This was some of the first evidence that a symbiotic microbe could wedge two species apart.»

The assemblage of symbiotic microbes that inhabit a host, termed the microbiome, plays an important role in health, disease and development1.