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Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host

Defences against parasites are typically associated with costs to the host that contribute to the maintenance of variation in resistance. This also applies to the defence provided by the facultative bacterial endosymbiont Hamiltonella defensa, which protects its aphid hosts against parasitoid wasps...

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Published in:Proc Biol Sci
Main Authors: Cayetano, Luis, Rothacher, Lukas, Simon, Jean-Christophe, Vorburger, Christoph
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286048/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25473015
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.2333
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