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Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies

Ecological conditions are known to change the expression of mutualisms though the causal agents driving such changes remain poorly understood. Here we show that temperature stress modulates the harm threatened by a common enemy, and thereby induces a phoretic mite to become a protective mutualist. O...

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Autores principales: Sun, Syuan-Jyun, Kilner, Rebecca M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32755542
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55649

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