ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020
More Is Not Always Better: Coinfections with Defensive Symbionts Generate Highly Variable Outcomes.
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- Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
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- Defensive Symbiont Genotype Distributions Are Linked to Parasitoid Attack Networks.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Insect-microbe interactions and their influence on organisms and ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- With a little help from my friends: the roles of microbial symbionts in insect populations and communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- The nutritional dimension of facultative bacterial symbiosis in aphids: Current status and methodological considerations for future research.Current research in insect science · 2024Review
- The impacts of host association and perturbation on symbiont fitness.Symbiosis (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
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- An aphid symbiont confers protection against a specialized RNA virus, another increases vulnerability to the same pathogen.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Host's genetic background determines the outcome of reciprocal faecal transplantation on life-history traits and microbiome composition.Animal microbiome · 2022Article
- Local adaptation to hosts and parasitoids shapeProceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Symbiont-conferred immunity interacts with effects of parasitoid genotype and intraguild predation to affect aphid immunity in a clone-specific fashion.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Frequent Drivers, Occasional Passengers: Signals of Symbiont-Driven Seasonal Adaptation and Hitchhiking in the Pea Aphid,Insects · 2021Article
- Genetic identity and genotype × genotype interactions between symbionts outweigh species level effects in an insect microbiome.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Area-wide insecticide resistance and endosymbiont incidence in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 (B biotype): A Neotropical context.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2021Article
- Context Dependency in Bark Beetle-Fungus Mutualisms Revisited: Assessing Potential Shifts in Interaction Outcomes Against Varied Genetic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Backgrounds.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Impact of Facultative Bacteria on the Metabolic Function of an Obligate Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis.mBio · 2020Article
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- Impacts of a novel defensive symbiosis on the nematode host microbiome.BMC microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Animal-associated microbes are highly variable, contributing to a diverse set of symbiont-mediated phenotypes. Given that host and symbiont genotypes, and their interactions, can impact symbiont-based phenotypes across environments, there is potential for extensive variation in fitness outcomes. Pea aphids,
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