Bacterial organisms inhabit diverse eukaryotes where their presence can have consequences for important traits of their host such as host development, nutrition or behavior. Eukaryotes thus constitute an ecological niche for microbial communities that utilize …
We live in a symbiotic world. All metaorganisms alike must have mechanisms in place to discriminate between microorganisms and to establish bacterial colonization during host development. However, the factors that are influencing the processes remain …
The project continues to address the establishment and functional consequences of the microbiota in the two basal metazoan animals, the Scyphozoan jellyfish Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria) (B2.1, PI Schmitz-Streit) and the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) …
