Christiane Emmerich joins the group as a Technical Research Assistant. Welcome, Christiane!
New publication: Adaptive plasticity of insect eggs
The insect egg is a sessile life stage but not a passive one. So how do eggs sense and respond to their environment? And which adaptations allow them to actively shape it? We cover these questions, and a few others, in our latest with Monika Hilker and Nina Fatouros. Out today in the Annual Review of Entomology!
Notice of Award: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Welcome news from the DFG! The Program Grant on Organismic Interactions will fund our efforts to study how symbioses fuel evolutionary innovation in leaf beetles. New opportunities to join the group will be advertised soon!
New publication: Leaf beetle propagates a phytopathogen in exchange for pupal protection
Thrilled to share our latest on a novel defensive mutualism between tortoise beetles and the ascomycete, Fusarium oxysporum. Fusarium confers protection for the beetle, and in exchange, the beetles vector the symbiont to their host plant. Led by Aileen Berasategui and Noa Breitenbach, and out today in Current Biology!
