The gut is home to trillions of microorganisms that have fundamental roles in many aspects
of human biology, including immune function and metabolism,. The reduced diversity of the …

A subset of neurons in the brain, known as 'glucose-excited'neurons, depolarize and
increase their firing rate in response to increases in extracellular glucose. Similar to insulin …

The evolutionary origin of metazoan cell types such as neurons and muscles is not known.
Using whole-body single-cell RNA sequencing in a sponge, an animal without nervous …

Antibiotics are used to fight pathogens but also target commensal bacteria, disturbing the
composition of gut microbiota and causing dysbiosis and disease. Despite this well-known …

Although all sensory circuits ascend to higher brain areas where stimuli are represented in
sparse, stimulus-specific activity patterns, relatively little is known about sensory coding on …

Human-associated microbial communities have a crucial role in determining our health and
well-being,, and this has led to the continuing development of microbiome-based therapies …

An approaching predator and self-motion toward an object can generate similar looming
patterns on the retina, but these situations demand different rapid responses. How central …

A critical requirement for research using model organisms is a well-defined and consistent
diet. There is currently no complete chemically defined (holidic) diet available for Drosophila …

The interrelationships between our diets and the structure and operations of our gut
microbial communities are poorly understood. A model community of 10 sequenced human …

Beneficial microbial associations enhance the fitness of most living organisms, and wood-
feeding insects offer some of the most striking examples of this. Odontotaenius disjunctus is …