What question did this study set out to answer?

The research focuses on understanding how insects, specifically black soldier flies, evolve their chemosensory systems in different environments.

April 19, 2026

ECR Spotlight – Marie Merle

Key Points

The research focuses on understanding how insects, specifically black soldier flies, evolve their chemosensory systems in different environments.
Interview with early-career researcher Marie Merle.
Investigation of genomic and transcriptomic data.
Analysis of ecological traits influencing chemosensory evolution.
Identification of specific genomic and transcriptomic signatures linked to chemosensory evolution.
Revelation of how varying ecological niches affect sensory adaptations in insects.

Abstract

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Marie Merle is an author on ‘ The hidden sweet tooth of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)’, published in JEB. Marie is a Postdoc in the lab of Dr Jonathan Filée at Institut Diversité Écologie et Évolution du Vivant (IDEEV), Université Paris-Saclay, France, investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of insect chemosensory evolution in response to varying ecological traits and niches.

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A Wed, study studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e47321010ef96374d8f00d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.252517

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