Article
Multi-modal defences in aphids offer redundant protection and increased costs likely impeding a protective mutualism.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 Mar 2018
Martinez Adam J, Doremus Matthew R, Kraft Laura J, Kim Kyungsun L, Oliver Kerry M
Abstract excerpt
The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, maintains extreme variation in resistance to its most common parasitoid wasp enemy, Aphidius ervi, which is sourced from two known mechanisms: protective bacterial symbionts, most commonly Hamiltonella defensa, or endogenously encoded defences. We have recently found that individual aphids may employ each defence individually, occasionally both defences together, or neither. In...
Topics
- Animals
- Aphids
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Fertility
- Genes, Insect
- Genotype
- Host Microbial Interactions
- Wasps