Cheaper is not always worse: Strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1799, 2015, Pages

  Cayetano, Luis ^a,b   Rothacher, Lukas ^a,b   Simon, Jean Christophe ^c   Vorburger, Christoph ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c Universite Rennes 1   (France)

Author keywords

Cost of resistance; Defensive symbiosis; Hamiltonella defensa; Lifespan; Parasitoid; Trade off

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SYMBIOSIS; TRADE-OFF; WASP;

ANIMAL; APHID; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS FABAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; LYSIPHLEBUS FABARUM;

EID: 84920964436     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2333     Document Type: Article

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