Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on Microbiomes - The New York Times Researchers reported on Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” detecting microbiomes on the surfaces around them and deriving
Octopuses Use Microbial Signals to Guide Complex Behaviors Octopuses are famously curious, exploring the seafloor with their arms to identify food and shelter Previous work from the Bellono lab characterized a family of sensory receptors found in the octopus’s arms that allow them to “taste by touch ” These receptors are particularly tuned to detect poorly soluble molecules—chemicals that don
Environmental microbiomes drive chemotactile sensation in octopus Octopus arms contain the majority of their neurons, allowing for local signal detection, processing, and behavior that facilitates prey capture along the seafloor 26 Here, we report the discovery of molecules from discrete microbiomes that octopuses detect among complex natural environments By exploiting these ecologically relevant cues, we
Environmental microbiomes drive chemotactile sensation in octopus By profiling the culturable microbiome from octopus prey and progeny, we identify distinct crab and egg-derived microbial strains that produce specific molecules to bind octopus single CRs in different conformations
‘Truly amazing’: Octopuses ‘taste’ harmful microbes with . . . Mother octopuses use their siphons to eject fake eggs doped with molecules from pathogenic bacteria Peter Kilian Bellono says it’s been difficult to determine how organisms interact with microbiomes—both external and internal—because these communities are so complex and produce a diversity of chemicals
The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod . . . In 2021, researchers from the Institute of Marine Research in Spain used an underwater camera to follow a male Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus On its left side, three arms were intact, while
Octopuses’ 8 Arms Snoop on the Microbial World – DNyuz Researchers reported on Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” detecting microbiomes on the surfaces around them and deriving information from them, said Rebecka Sepela, a molecular biologist at Harvard and an author of the new study