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Title:
| Bacterial protection of beetle-fungus mutualism |
Author(s): |
Scott, Jarrod J.; Oh, Dong-Chan; Yuceer, M. Cetin; Klepzig, Kier D.; Clardy, Jon; Currie, Cameron R. |
Date: |
2008 |
Source: |
Science, Vol. 332: 63 |
Description: |
The pervasiveness of beneficial associations between symbiotic microbes and plants and animals in every ecosystem illustrates how the acquisition of a microbes physiological capacity confers substantial fitness benefits to hosts (1). However, dependence on mutualistic microbes becomes a liability if antagonistic microbes attack or outcompete beneficial ones (2). Therefore, mechanisms to preserve beneficial microbes must be a widespread, although poorly understood, component of host-microbe mutualisms. We show that a beetle uses a bacterium to protect its fungal food source from a competitor fungus. |
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