Nature Microbiology

The paper is entitled Colibactin Produced by a Honeybee Gut Symbiont Mediates Pathogen Defense.

It's by Yulin Song, L- J. Elijah Powell, uh, Joel Wong, Yunqi Liu, Miguel Aguirre Ramos, Tyler DeJong, Patrick Lariviere, Jayaditya Maganti, Emily Balskus, and Nancy Moran, and it was published in Nature Microbiology in July.

And the reason, again, I think this is interesting because it suggests this honeybee gut symbiont is producing colibactin, which is a DNA-damaging agent, to protect the bac- to protect the honeybee.

It ends up protecting the honeybee from a pathogen, Serratia marcescens, which we're all familiar with.

We found non-inferiority, so equal efficacy of the antibiotic of choice and of our compound in that study.

That was published in Nature Microbiology just a few months ago.

So we're very proud of that.

It's a conceptual study.

Chris writes, "Hello, TWIV team.

Thanks so much for discussing our recent Nature Microbiology paper.

It was a real joy hearing Jolene and the rest of you break it down.

It is one of those wonderful scientific paths that you aren't looking for but finds you.