Exposure to natural pathogens reveals costly aphid response to fungi but not bacteria

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 488-493

  Barribeau, Seth M ^a,b,c   Parker, Benjamin J ^a   Gerardo, Nicole M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute for Advanced Study Berlin   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Ecological Immunology; Host pathogen interactions; Immunity; Pandora neoaphidis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894025828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.892     Document Type: Article

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