Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story
Update: 2025-06-13
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Matters Microbial #95: Bacteria and Aphids — A Symbiotic Story
June 12, 2025Today, Dr. Tory Hendry, Associate Professor of Microbiology at Cornell University, joins the #QualityQuorum to tell us about the relationship between plant munching aphids and fluorescent Pseudomonas . . . and why we should care.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guests: Tory Hendry
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Links for this episode
- An overview of siderophores in microorganisms.
- An essay about aphid life cycle and characteristics.
- An article describing parthenogenesis in aphids.
- An essay describing aphids and color vision.
- The agricultural costs of aphids as pests.
- An article describing aphids and one type of bacterial symbiont.
- An overview of microbes of the phyllosphere.
- An overview of quorum sensing.
- An overview of pyoverdin, a fluorescent siderophore.
- An old essay I wrote for the Small Things Considered blog about semiochemicals, bacterial, and insect predation.
- A nice description of the work Dr. Hendry talked about during today’s podcast.
- The actual article by Dr. Hendry and collaborators.
- A preprint by Dr. Hendry’s research group, following up on the above research.
- Dr. Hendry’s faculty website.
- Dr. Hendry’s research group website (with SO MANY cool projects to think about, including the topic discussed today).
Intro music is by Reber Clark
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