Mass spectrometry imaging is a powerful analytical technique for detecting and determining spatial distributions of molecules within a sample. Typically, mass spectrometry imaging is limited to the analysis of thin tissue sections taken from the middle of a sample. In this work, we present a mass spectrometry imaging method for the detection of compounds produced by bacteria on the outside surface of ant exoskeletons in response to pathogen exposure. Fungus-growing ants have a specialized mutualism with <i>Pseudonocardia</i>, a bacterium that lives on the ants’ exoskeletons and helps protect their fungal garden food source from harmful pathogens. The developed method allows for visualization of bacterial-derived compounds on the ant exoskel...
Mass spectrometry imaging provides a new frontier in imaging the spatial distribution of molecular s...
The ability to generate two-dimensional images of a wound that contains information about the distri...
Over the recent years MALDI-Imaging analysis has gained high interest and the ever increasing number...
Metabolic exchange between an organism and the environment, including interactions with neighboring ...
Many microbes can be cultured as single-species communities. Often, these colonies are controlled an...
Traditionally, microbes are studied under controlled laboratory conditions as isolates in planktonic...
Many ant species grow fungus gardens that predigest food as an essential step of the ants' nutrient ...
Microbes influence many aspects of human life from the environment to health, yet evaluating their b...
The detection of chemical species and understanding their respective localisations in tissues have i...
The fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis is an ideal system to study chemistry-based microbial inter...
Introduction Over the last years, lots of progress have been done in the development of mass spectr...
White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans is decimating...
White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans is decimating...
Herein we describe a new protocol that allows direct mass spectrometry imaging (IMS) of agar culture...
Leaf-cutting ants cultivate the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which serves as a major food sou...
Mass spectrometry imaging provides a new frontier in imaging the spatial distribution of molecular s...
The ability to generate two-dimensional images of a wound that contains information about the distri...
Over the recent years MALDI-Imaging analysis has gained high interest and the ever increasing number...
Metabolic exchange between an organism and the environment, including interactions with neighboring ...
Many microbes can be cultured as single-species communities. Often, these colonies are controlled an...
Traditionally, microbes are studied under controlled laboratory conditions as isolates in planktonic...
Many ant species grow fungus gardens that predigest food as an essential step of the ants' nutrient ...
Microbes influence many aspects of human life from the environment to health, yet evaluating their b...
The detection of chemical species and understanding their respective localisations in tissues have i...
The fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis is an ideal system to study chemistry-based microbial inter...
Introduction Over the last years, lots of progress have been done in the development of mass spectr...
White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans is decimating...
White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the pathogenic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans is decimating...
Herein we describe a new protocol that allows direct mass spectrometry imaging (IMS) of agar culture...
Leaf-cutting ants cultivate the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which serves as a major food sou...
Mass spectrometry imaging provides a new frontier in imaging the spatial distribution of molecular s...
The ability to generate two-dimensional images of a wound that contains information about the distri...
Over the recent years MALDI-Imaging analysis has gained high interest and the ever increasing number...