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Insect microbiomes – a new hope against antimicrobial resistance?

Nowadays, more and more antibiotics (also referred to as antimicrobial drugs) are becoming ineffective to fight against bad bacteria and fungi because these organisms are capable of rapidly developing resistance to those compounds. These resistances arise due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. In... click to read more

Fabio Palmieri | PhD student at University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

antimicrobial resistance

microbiota

insects

antimicrobial

microbiome

Streptomyces bacteria

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Aug 2, 2019

How did ant-plant interactions evolve?

What are those ants doing? No, over there. Ants are all kind of the same, right? Nope. Ants are diverse - there are actually more kinds of ants than birds. Some live underground, and some use plants as places to hunt for food or... click to read more

Matthew P. Nelsen | Research Scientist at The Field Museum, Integrative Research Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Richard H. Ree | Curator at The Field Museum, Integrative Research Center, Chicago, IL, USA

Corrie S. Moreau | Curator at Cornell University, Departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, USA

symbiosis

insects

flowering plants

Reading time 4 min

published on May 3, 2019