Springtails showed up in unusual numbers when coauthor Paul Becher set out bits To smack the ground in a crisis, bouncing the springtail up and away from Part of their name comes from a prong latched against the body that snaps loose Might help animals avoid microbially contaminated food. Just to detecting geosmin, which the flies find repellant. For instance, the common Drosophila lab fruit fly dedicates a circuit in its sensory wiring People as well as many other animals can detect lowĬoncentrations of it. The bacteria, inadvertently picking up spores that hitchhike to new territory, says Klas Flärdh, a microbiologist atĮnvironmental microbes, including virtually all Streptomyces. Soil and attracts hungry little arthropods called springtails. When bacteria start making spores, geosmin wafts into the Regulate spore-making also can trigger geosmin production, an international It’s not just an everyday scent for them. Rich with the tangy odor of moist soil into a hitchhiking scam.įor streptomycin and other antibiotics, can release a strong, earthy whiff of what’sĬalled geosmin. Streptomyces bacteria have turned a compound
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