John McCutcheon
@mcsymbiont.bsky.social
I like bacteria that live inside of insect cells.
Oh, your favorite genetic locus only encodes one gene? That's boring.
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Oh, your favorite genetic locus only encodes one gene? That's boring.
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Amazing work from Jess Warren (www.hhmi.org/scientists/j...) to figure this out and prove it was real, given the wacky and challenging insect system we've got here.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here it is, as promised, hanging in the dry lab. It looks incredible! You can see some other cicada art in the distance, it's an image of the bacteria-containing tissues in cicadas. Thanks again.
October 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Here it is, as promised, hanging in the dry lab. It looks incredible! You can see some other cicada art in the distance, it's an image of the bacteria-containing tissues in cicadas. Thanks again.
Just cannot stop working on cicadas. Having a blast with two people from my lab running around St. Louis collecting these amazing animals (and their more amazing endosymbionts, of course).
May 12, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Just cannot stop working on cicadas. Having a blast with two people from my lab running around St. Louis collecting these amazing animals (and their more amazing endosymbionts, of course).
