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Evidence of indirect symbiont conferred protection against the predatory lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in the pea aphid

BACKGROUND: Defensive symbionts can provide significant fitness advantages to their hosts. Facultative symbionts can protect several species of aphid from fungal pathogens, heat shock, and parasitism by parasitoid wasps. Previous work found that two of these facultative symbionts can also indirectly...

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Autores principales: Kovacs, Jennifer L., Wolf, Candice, Voisin, Dené, Wolf, Seth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5504669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28693550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-017-0136-x