Microbial management as a driver of parental care and family aggregations in carrion feeding insects

Social behaviors and lifestyles have evolved as successful strategies to cope with adverse and challenging living conditions, often by manipulating the immediate environment. These manipulations can extend to the surrounding microbiome, both in terms of combating harmful agents such as pathogens but...

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Main Authors: Maximilian Körner, Sandra Steiger, Shantanu P. Shukla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1252876/full