Defensive insect symbiont leads to cascading extinctions and community collapse

Animals often engage in mutualistic associations with microorganisms that protect them from predation, parasitism or pathogen infection. Studies of these interactions in insects have mostly focussed on the direct effects of symbiont infection on natural enemies without studying community‐wide effect...

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Main Authors: Sanders, Dirk, Kehoe, Rachel, van Veen, FJ Frank, McLean, Ailsa, Godfray, H. Charles J., Dicke, Marcel, Gols, Rieta, Frago, Enric
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949664/