Martin Kaltenpoth
(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
20/09/2025, 09:00
Oral presentation
Insects represent the most diverse animal class on earth, and their evolutionary success is at least partly due to their ability to engage in manifold interactions with beneficial microorganisms. These symbiotic microbes can live intra- or extracellularly in their insect hosts and provision limiting nutrients, digestive or detoxifying enzymes, or protective chemicals that enhance host fitness....