Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. https://t.co/ar4MoJlurp
Bacteria glowing with green fluorescence move inside a fungal cell. In this video, the bacteria seem like an infection, but in successive generations, the two organisms will adapt to each other until they find endosymbiotic balance. https://t.co/cnUVLpD2Oh
@svendesai@QuantaMagazine Fair point. Firsts are relative and we don‘t claim to be the first in our article. There’s been a lot of seminal research on this before. But I am excited about the progress we made! https://t.co/dJSITsVNOk
Big thanks to @QuantaMagazine and @mollymherring for piblishing this story about our research on inducing novel endosymbioses in fungi by directly injecting bacteria!
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My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. https://t.co/4UHcFFODlG
We first wrote this piece in 2018, another year in which seven recipients were awarded scientific Nobel Prizes, all of them male.
It remains as relevant now as it was then.
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@WG_BaseballBio A lot is still unclear, especially in this coenocytic early divergent fungus. We need to dig deeper for molecular mechanisms. Fortunately, there‘s more and more interest. And some other great work already out there too.
Here‘s some footage of our injection of bacteria into R. microsporus. There‘s more videos in the SI of the article with active transport and the fungal innate immunity response.
Ref: Giger et al., Nature 2024
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We found a way to implant bacteria 🦠 in fungi 🍄and used it to induce artificial endosymbiosis. Read all about it in our newest research paper @Nature .
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Bacteria inside fungi! A new study by the #VorholtLab shows how artificial endosymbiosis can transfer a metabolic function and drive innovation in biology.
@Nature: https://t.co/ZGiyuaQuVJ
@ETH_en: https://t.co/d6ZDkBM5Rb