The Caenorhabditis elegans microbiome impacts microsporidia infection through nutrient limitation and spore inactivation
Hala Tamim El Jarkass, Stefanie Castelblanco, Winnie Zhao, Manpreet Kaur, Yin Chen Wan, Abigail E Ellis, Ryan D Sheldon, Barbara Pees, Katja Dierking, Evan C Lien, Nick O Burton, Gerard D Wright, Aaron W Reinke · 2026
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Description
Hala Tamim El Jarkass and co-authors show how gut germs of a small worm blunt a spore germ that can grow in host cells alone, in a study from 2026. The spore germ strikes most beast kinds, man in the count, yet germ shields in the gut were dim. Worms fed on set germ kinds met their home spore foe in the tests.
Two germ kinds let the foe in fast yet starved its growth past entry. Fat reads show those germs cut slick fats in the host, and one fat fed back won the foe its growth. Two more germ kinds shed goods that kill foe spores in the gut. Most kin strains tried also cut the foe.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hala Tamim El Jarkass, Stefanie Castelblanco, Winnie Zhao, Manpreet Kaur, Yin Chen Wan, Abigail E Ellis, Ryan D Sheldon, Barbara Pees, Katja Dierking, Evan C Lien, Nick O Burton, Gerard D Wright, Aaron W Reinke |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 80 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |