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Dangerous acquaintances: the interplay between type IV pili and the type VI secretion system during Vibrio cholerae's environmental lifestyle
Cholera, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has affected humanity throughout history and still impacts millions of people every year. Apart from being a human pathogen, V. cholerae is a common member of the aquatic environment. Due to this natural re ...
EPFL2024Multiple nest entrances alter foraging and information transfer in ants
The ecological success of ants relies on their ability to discover and collectively exploit available resources. In this process, the nest entrances are key locations at which foragers transfer food and information about the surrounding environment. We ass ...
ROYAL SOC2020Drosophila melanogaster cloak their eggs with pheromones, which prevents cannibalism
Yury Tsybin, Laure Menin, Konstantin Nagornov
Oviparous animals across many taxa have evolved diverse strategies that deter egg predation, providing valuable tests of how natural selection mitigates direct fitness loss. Communal egg laying in nonsocial species minimizes egg predation. However, in cann ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2019Insect-Inspired Visual Perception for Flight Control and Collision Avoidance
Julien Jean Denis Nicolas Lecoeur
Flying robots are increasingly used for tasks such as aerial mapping, fast exploration, video footage and monitoring of buildings.
Autonomous flight at low altitude in cluttered and unknown environments is an active research topic because it poses challen ...
EPFL2019The Role of Lipid Competition for Endosymbiont-Mediated Protection against Parasitoid Wasps in Drosophila
Bruno Lemaitre, Fanny Schüpfer, Juan Camilo Paredes Escobar, Jeremy Keith Herren
Insects commonly harbor facultative bacterial endosymbionts, such as Wolbachia and Spiroplasma species, that are vertically transmitted from mothers to their offspring. These endosymbiontic bacteria increase their propagation by manipulating host reproduct ...
American Society for Microbiology2016Effects of ploidy and sex-locus genotype on gene expression patterns in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Oksana Riba Grognuz, Laurent Keller
Males in many animal species differ greatly from females in morphology, physiology and behaviour. Ants, bees and wasps have a haplodiploid mechanism of sex determination whereby unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs become females. However, ...
Royal Soc2014Quorum Sensing Contributes to Natural Transformation of Vibrio cholerae in a Species-Specific Manner
Melanie Blokesch, Patrick Martin Seitz, Gaia Francesca Marianne Suckow
Although it is a human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae is a regular member of aquatic habitats, such as coastal regions and estuaries. Within these environments, V. cholerae often takes advantage of the abundance of zooplankton and their chitinous molts as a nut ...
American Society for Microbiology2011Monalysin, a novel ß-pore-forming toxin from the Drosophila pathogen Pseudomonas entomophila, contributes to host intestinal damage and lethality
Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Bruno Lemaitre, Mircea Ioan Iacovache, Rodrigo Manuel Gonzalez, Onya Opota
Pseudomonas entomophila is an entomopathogenic bacterium that infects and kills Drosophila. P. entomophila pathogenicity is linked to its ability to cause irreversible damages to the Drosophila gut, preventing epithelium renewal and repair. Here we report ...
2011Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots
Valentin Longchamp, Simon Garnier
Foraging robots involved in a search and retrieval task may create paths to navigate faster in their environment. In this context, a swarm of robots that has found several resources and created different paths may benefit strongly from path selection. Path ...
2010Effects of Rewarding and Unrewarding Experiences on the Response to Host-induced Plant Odors of the Generalist Parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Anthony Christopher Davison, Ingrid Ricard
Associative learning is known to modify foraging behavior in numerous parasitic wasps. This is in agreement with optimal foraging theory, which predicts that the wasps will adapt their responses to specific cues in accordance with the rewards they receive ...
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