Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 214-218

  Łukasik, Piotr ^a,d   van Asch, Margriet ^a   Guo, Huifang ^a,b   Ferrari, Julia ^a,c   Charles J Godfray, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Endosymbiosis; Hamiltonella defensa; Inclusive fitness; Pandora neoaphidis; Resistance; Secondary symbiont

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; PARASITOID; PATHOGEN; WASP;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPIROPLASMA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; SPIROPLASMA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; PANDORA NEOAPHIDIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIELLA; SPIROPLASMA;

EID: 84872599973     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12031     Document Type: Article

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