Organisms evolve in response to their natural environment. Consideration of natural
ecological parameters are thus of key importance for our understanding of an organism's …

Yeast cells are often employed in industrial fermentation processes for their ability to
efficiently convert relatively high concentrations of sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide …

Background Host-microbe associations underlie many key processes of host development,
immunity, and life history. Yet, none of the current research on the central model species …

Most Caenorhabditis elegans studies have used laboratory Escherichia coli as diet and
microbial environment. Here we characterize bacteria of C. elegans' natural habitats of …

The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has risen to the status of a top model organism for
biological research in the last fifty years. Among laboratory animals, this tiny nematode is …

Studies in model organisms have yielded considerable insights into the etiology of disease
and our understanding of evolutionary processes. Caenorhabditis elegans is among the …

DAF-16, the only forkhead box transcription factors class O (FoxO) homolog in
Caenorhabditis elegans, integrates signals from upstream pathways to elicit transcriptional …

Limbless locomotors, from microscopic worms to macroscopic snakes, traverse complex,
heterogeneous natural environments typically using undulatory body wave propagation …

There is growing interest in using Drosophila melanogaster to elucidate mechanisms that
underlie the complex relationships between a host and its microbiota. In addition to the …

The human microbiota greatly affects physiology and disease; however, the contribution of
bacteria to the response to chemotherapeutic drugs remains poorly understood …