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Animal developmental programs occur within the context of coevolved associations with microbes. Hydra is one of the prime model systems for evolutionary developmental biologists. The fact that symbiotic interactions were discovered to be essential to …
Nawroth JC, Giez C, Klimovich A, Kanso EA, Bosch TCG (2023) Spontaneous body wall contractions stabilize the fluid microenvironment that shapes host-microbe associations. eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.83637.
Giez C, Pinkle D, Giencke Y, Wittlieb J, Herbst E, Spratte T, Lachnit T, Klimovich A, Selhuber-Unkel C, Bosch TCG (2023) Microbes as part of ancestral neuronal circuits: Bacterial produced signals affect neurons controlling eating behavior in Hydra. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538719
Ulrich Laura, Giez Christoph, Steiner Leon X., Hentschel Ute, Lachnit Tim (2022): Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 13.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1056388
Bosch T & Giez C (2022). Wenn das Mikrobiom den Nerven trifft: Hydra hilft den Blick auf die Interaktion von Mikroben und Nervenzellen zu vertiefen. Biologie in Unserer Zeit, 52(4), 352–362. https://doi.org/10.11576/biuz-5866
Giez C, Bosch TCG (2021) Nat Rev Microbiol. doi: 10.1038/s41579-021-00575-y
Giez C, Klimovich A, Bosch TCG (2021) Neuroforum 27(2): 89–98. doi 10.1515/nf-2021-0003