Costs, benefits, and loss of vertically transmitted symbionts affect host population dynamics

There are many ways to be a mutualist: Endophytic fungus reduces plant survival but increases population growth

(2012) Jennifer A. Rudgers et al.   ECOLOGY

Avoiding unintentional eviction from integral projection models

(2012) Jennifer L. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Incorporating the process of vertical transmission into understanding of host-symbiont dynamics

(2011) P. E. Gundel et al.   OIKOS

Searching for Evidence against the Mutualistic Nature of Hereditary Symbioses: A Comment on Faeth

(2010) Jennifer A. Rudgers et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Epichloae, Symbionts of the Grass Subfamily Poöideae1

(2010) Christopher L. Schardl   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

How do plant ecologists use matrix population models?

(2010) Elizabeth E. Crone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Understanding context-dependency in plant–microbe symbiosis: The influence of abiotic and biotic contexts on host fitness and the rate of symbiont transmission

(2010) Andrew J. Davitt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Do the costs and benefits of fungal endophyte symbiosis vary with light availability?

(2010) Andrew J. Davitt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inherited fungal symbionts enhance establishment of an invasive annual grass across successional habitats

(2010) Andrea Uchitel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Fungal endophytes of native grasses decrease insect herbivore preference and performance

(2010) Kerri M. Crawford et al.   OECOLOGIA

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

(2010) T. M. Palmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asexual Fungal Symbionts Alter Reproductive Allocation and Herbivory over Time in Their Native Perennial Grass Hosts

(2009) Stanley H. Faeth   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Impacts of insect herbivory on cactus population dynamics: experimental demography across an environmental gradient

(2009) Tom E. X. Miller et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A fungus among us: broad patterns of endophyte distribution in the grasses

(2009) Jennifer A. Rudgers et al.   ECOLOGY

Endophyte-Mediated Resistance to Herbivores Depends on Herbivore Identity in the Wild GrassFestuca subverticillata

(2009) Michelle E. Afkhami et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Symbiosis Lost: Imperfect Vertical Transmission of Fungal Endophytes in Grasses

(2008) Michelle E. Afkhami et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Neotyphodium endophyte infection frequency in annual grass populations: relative importance of mutualism and transmission efficiency

(2008) P. E Gundel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES