PhD position in arthropod gut microbiome and processes | ISME
Disruption of millipede-gut microbiota in E. pulchripes and G. connexa highlights the limited role of litter fermentation and the importance of litter-associated microbes for nutrition - Communications Biology
Disruption of the millipede gut microbiome using inhibitors and labelling it using 13 C stable isotope probing demonstrate that microbial fermentation and methanogenesis are non-essential for the millipede’s nutrition.
A new Dr. was born!
Congratulations, @julipeale, and good luck in your new position with @YergeauE.
Thanks to @LuedersLab @SaudiDaudi for being such great reviewers. It was fun hosting you here.
Also, thanks, @m_wutkowska, for the pictures.
New collaborative publication in @DesalinationJ showing bacterial succession and growth of Actinobacteria at the expense of Proteobacteria on a reverse-osmosis biofilm using DNA-SIP
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916424003692Similar to our previous paper, the result point out to the fact that millipedes rely on fungal and bacterial biomass rather than on fermentation products
Stable isotope probing showed us very slow labelling of the gut bacteria and somewhat faster for fungi
Also suppressing CH4 production did not affect them much, and their gut methanogens survived and revived after impression was eliminated.
Antibiotics nearly eliminated their microbiota but had no effect on their weight.
We continue our work with millipedes. Here, we wanted to see how dependent millipedes are on their gut microbiome. Do they fully depend on it like termites, or is it expendable, like in caterpillars?
