The microbiota affects stem cell decision making in Hydra

Jinru He, Alexander Klimovich, Sabine Kock, Linus Dahmke, Sören Franzenburg, Thomas C.G. Bosch (2024): The microbiota affects stem cell decision making in Hydra.
BioRxiv DOI:10.1101/2024.08.20.608462

Satiety controls behavior in Hydra through an interplay of pre-enteric and central nervous system-like neuron populations Assembly of a functional neuronal circuit in embryos of an ancestral metazoan is influenced by environmental signals including the microbiome.