Might be of interest to folk on the #insectBio feed.

Why did #metamorphosis evolve?
"We find that holometabolous insects grow much faster than hemimetabolous insects (supporting) the notion that the holometabolous life history evolved to remove developmental constraints on fast growth."

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#evosky #insectbio

Looks cool from Imroze Khan lab (in Tenebrio beetles) "When we depleted the microbiome, only females improved their post-infection survival, leading to a loss of sex-specific infection outcomes."

#SymbioSky #InsectBio #HostPathogen #SexualDimorphism

Tagging #Drosophila feeds.
#Drosofeed #InsectBio

With #ICE2024 beginning tomorrow, will just re-advertise this feed:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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This feed should* broadcast all #ICE2024 hashtag posts, but also #Ento24 (Sept Royal Ent Soc meeting UK), #Dros25, and will update in future with any conference hashtags for #InsectBio 🙂