#oysters #Crassostrea #manhattan

Amazing paleoart of a Miocene oyster reef! Here is a photo of 2 blocks from Stetten, Austria, at the Natural History Museum of Vienna #fossils #paratethys #miocene #crassostrea

Cross-talk and mutual shaping between the immune system and the microbiota during an oyster's life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas lives in microbe-rich marine coastal systems subjected to rapid environmental changes. It harbours a diversified and fluctuating microbiota that cohabits with immune cells expressing a diversified immune gene ...

Destomieux-Garzon et al. gave a really nice overview of #Crassostrea gigas, where #marine #microbes are a fluid element of life & "educate" host #immunity to prime it for later-life survival.

Not to mention importance re: #dysbiosis from Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (a #virus disease) 🧵 5/n