Journal article
Insect symbionts in food webs.
- Abstract:
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Recent research has shown that the bacterial endosymbionts of insects are abundant and diverse, and that they have numerous different effects on their hosts’ biology. Here we explore how insect endosymbionts might affect the structure and dynamics of insect communities. Using the obligate and facultative symbionts of aphids as an example, we find that there are multiple ways that symbiont presence might affect food web structure. Many symbionts are now known to help their hosts escape or resi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Natural Environment Research Council
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Funding agency for:
McLean, A
Godfray, H
National Science Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 371
- Issue:
- 1702
- Pages:
- 20150325
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0962-8436 and 1471-2970
- Pmid:
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27481779
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- Copyright holder:
- McLean et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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