Defensive insect symbiont leads to cascading extinctions and community collapse
Animals often engage in mutualistic associations with microorganisms that protect them from predation, parasitism or pathogen infection. Studies of these interactions in insects have mostly focussed on the direct effects of symbiont infection on natural enemies without studying community-wide effect...
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Wiley
2016
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