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Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments

Ecology and Evolution
Urbanisation alters biodiversity patterns and threatens to disrupt mutualistic interactions. Aside from pollination, however, little is known about how mutualisms change in cities.
Hannah Gaber, Florian Ruland, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Maud Bernard‐Verdier   +3 more
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Separate, separated, and together: the transcriptional program of the Clostridium acetobutylicum-Clostridium ljungdahlii syntrophy leading to interspecies cell fusion

mSystems
Syntrophic cocultures (hitherto assumed to be commensalistic) of Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium ljungdahlii, whereby CO2 and H2 produced by the former feed the latter, result in interspecies cell fusion involving large-scale exchange of ...
Noah B. Willis, Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis   +1 more
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Interspecific Variations in Interplant Communication and Ecological Characteristics in Trees

Ecology and Evolution
Plants evolve diverse communication systems in adapting to complex and variable environments. Here, we examined the relationship between plant architecture, population density and inter‐plant communication within tree species.
Akira Yamawo, Tomika Hagiwara, Satomi Yoshida, Misuzu Ohno, Riku Nakajima, Yusuke Mori, Tamayo Hayashi, Hiroki Yamagishi, Kaori Shiojiri   +8 more
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Myrmecophilous Aphid Species (Hemiptera, Aphididae) Feeding on Mycoheterotrophic Monotropa hypophegea (Ericales, Ericaceae)

Insects
The paper presents the first report and morphological description of aphids feeding on the mycoheterotrophic plant Monotropa hypophegea Wallr. of the family Ericaceae.
Bartosz Bielecki, Patryk Długosz, Miłosz Morawski, Łukasz Depa   +3 more
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Tending-Ants Increase Survivorship and Reproductive Success of Calloconophora pugionata Drietch (Hemiptera, Membracidae), a Trophobiont Herbivore of Myrcia obovata O.Berg (Myrtales, Myrtaceae)

Sociobiology, 2013
The trophic relations between ants and hemipterans are very common in the Neotropical Region, but rarely explored in dry montane ecosystems. Given the diversity of outcomes of this type of interactions influenced by variation in biotic conditions (i.e ...
Roberth Fagundes, Sérvio Pontes Ribeiro, Kleber Del-Claro   +2 more
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EFFECT OF MICROSYMBIONTS ON THE ABILITY OF VAGINAL EPITHELIOCYTES TO MODIFY BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF BACTERIA

Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2015
Aim. Study regularities of effects of various types of vaginal microsymbionts on the ability of mucosal epitheliocytes of the vagina to modify biological properties of bacteria. Materials and methods.
E. A Kremleva, A. V Sgibnev, S. V Cherkasov   +2 more
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Precipitation Drives Frugivory in a Subtropical Generalist Herbivore, the Gopher Tortoise, and Alters Its Functional Role as a Seed Disperser

Ecology and Evolution
Consumers employ a variety of foraging strategies, and oftentimes the foraging strategy employed is related to resource availability. As consumers acquire resources, they may interact with their resource base in mutualistic or antagonistic ways—falling ...
Adrian Figueroa, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Michael Greenacre, Alyssa Herrera, Lydia Cuni, Jennifer Villate, Mauro Galetti, Hong Liu, Steven Whitfield   +8 more
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Evolving towards mutualism. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2010
Diana Gitig
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Tryptophanase disruption promotes insect-bacterium mutualism. [PDF]

Nat Microbiol
Wang Y, Moriyama M, Koga R, Oguchi K, Hosokawa T, Takai H, Shigenobu S, Nikoh N, Fukatsu T.   +8 more
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Differences in the fitness effects of traded resources shape traits and persistence in multi-mutualist communities. [PDF]

PLoS One
Agarwal R, Curé AE, Segraves KA, Althoff DM.   +3 more
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