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Beetle parents manipulate information broadcast from bacteria in a rotting corpse

  • Written by Stephen Trumbo, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Beetle parents manipulate information broadcast from bacteria in a rotting corpseParent beetle regurgitating liquefied carrion to its young.Stephen Trumbo, CC BY-SA

Biologists are accustomed to hearing stories of microbes manipulating their host – a fungus that turns ants into suicidal zombies, a protozoan that makes rats seek out cat urine – but there are few examples of hosts turning the tables on their microbes.

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