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📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A review of the role of epigenetics 🧬 in regulating symbiotic interactions in insects. Well done Elisa Dell'Aglio, Mariana Galvão Ferrarini, and @ritarebollo.bsky.social 👏

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Plasticulture Functionalized with Pesticides for Sustainable Crop Protection: A Systematic Review Crops face significant biotic stress from animal pests, pathogens, and weeds, driving widespread use of pesticides and plasticulture. While synthetic pesticides harm the environment and human health, ...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A review by Virginie Lacotte, Pedro Da Silva, and Sébastien Livi on the potential of pesticide-functionalized plastics for sustainable crop protection.
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📣 #OurLastPaper is out! And it's a major breakthrough that we're publishing in @cp-cell.bsky.social l: we've discovered architect bacteria that build complex structures to feed themselves better!
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📣 #OurLastPaper is out! In collaboration with the IMP lab and the LBBE lab, this work focuses on exploiting the synergy of essential oils to enhance repellency against sap-sucking insects.
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Dual-transcriptomics on microdissected cells reveals functional specialisation of symbiont-bearing-cells and contrasted responses to nutritional stress in the cereal weevil - Microbiome Background Insects thriving on a nutritionally imbalanced diet often establish long-term relationships with intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts), which complement their nutritional needs a...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! This study explores the functional specialization of the symbiont-bearing organ in the rice weevil.
Using microdissection coupled with dual RNA-seq, we revealed different cell types, each with distinct host-symbiont molecular dialogues. #SymbioSky
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Quantifying supply and demand in the pea aphid-Buchnera symbiosis reveals the metabolic Achilles’ heels of this interaction Many herbivorous insects feed on unbalanced diets and rely on bacterial endosymbionts to meet all their nutritional needs. This is the case for the pe…

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A quantitative metabolic model of the obligate #aphid symbiont, #Buchnera aphidicola. This work also provides a model of the life stage-specific provision of nutrients from the bacterium to the host. #SymbioSky
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Biodegradable and Partially Biobased Active Plastic Film for Sustainable Crop Protection Crop pests, particularly aphids, cause significant yield and economic losses. Conventional pest control using synthetic pesticides is becoming less effective due to increasing pest resistance and pose...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A fruitful collaboration with the IMP lab, this work focuses on the incorporation of essential oils with insect repellent properties into partially bio-based polymers.
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Strong impact of orally administered BCR4 defensin on aphid survival, embryo development, and symbiotic cells in three Acyrthosiphon pisum parthenogenetic lines - Journal of Pest Science Aphids are major crop pests capable of colonizing the main plants grown for human consumption. They have specialized cells, the bacteriocytes, which house the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola tha...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A study on the toxic effects of the BCR4 #defensin on survival, embryonic development, and #symbiotic cells in the pea #aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Collaborative work with @uclouvain.bsky.social CBM Orléans and IGEPP Rennes! doi.org/10.1007/s103...

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📣 #OurLastPaper is out! New insights into the role of NPF signaling in regulating metabolic balance in #aphids. Just published in @cp-heliyon.bsky.social. A great outcome of our ongoing and productive collaboration with @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

ArtSymbioCyc, a metabolic network database collection dedicated to arthropod symbioses: a case study, the tripartite cooperation in Sipha maydis | mSystems The evolution has driven the emergence of complex arthropod-microbe symbiotic systems, whose metabolic integration is difficult to unravel. With its user-friendly interface, ArtSymbioCyc (https://arts...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! We developed ArtSymbioCyc (artsymbiocyc.cycadsys.org), a metabolism-oriented database collection gathering genomic resources for #arthropods and their symbiotic #bacteria to analyze and compare metabolic #networks on a genome-wide scale. #SymbioSky @leogerlin.bsky.social

Annotation of transcription factors, chromatin-associated factors, and basal transcription machinery in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and development of the ATFdb database, a resource for studie... The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, is an emerging model system in functional and comparative genomics, in part due to the availability of new genomic…

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! Complete annotation of the pea aphid #TranscriptionFactors. A valuable resource for gene regulation 🧬 studies in #aphids available online 💻: atf.cycadsys.org #SymbioSky
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Coordination of host and endosymbiont gene expression governs endosymbiont growth and elimination in... Background Insects living in nutritionally poor environments often establish long-term relationships with intracellular bacteria that supplement their diets and improve their adaptive and invasive pow...

📣 #OurLastPaper is out! A huge work to study how #weevils and their #endosymbionts finely tune their gene expression in response to different physiological challenges during insect development 🧪🦠🧬🖥️ #SymbioSky #MicroSky doi.org/10.1186/s401...