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Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host
Defences against parasites are typically associated with costs to the host that contribute to the maintenance of variation in resistance. This also applies to the defence provided by the facultative bacterial endosymbiont Hamiltonella defensa, which protects its aphid hosts against parasitoid wasps...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2333 |