Multi-modal defences in aphids offer redundant protection and increased costs likely impeding a protective mutualism

Genotype specificity among hosts, pathogens, and beneficial microbes influences the strength of symbiont-mediated protection

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

Bacterial endosymbionts protect aphids in the field and alter parasitoid community composition

(2016) Lukas Rothacher et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity in symbiont consortia in the pea aphid complex is associated with large phenotypic variation in the insect host

(2016) Mélanie Leclair et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Heritable symbionts in a world of varying temperature

(2016) C Corbin et al.   HEREDITY

Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

(2016) Jan Hrček et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Specificity of Multi-Modal Aphid Defenses against Two Rival Parasitoids

(2016) Adam J. Martinez et al.   PLoS One

Insect life history and the evolution of bacterial mutualism

(2015) Lee M. Henry et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns, causes and consequences of defensive microbiome dynamics across multiple scales

(2015) Andrew H. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

(2015) Laura V. Flórez et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Aphid-encoded variability in susceptibility to a parasitoid

(2014) Adam J Martinez et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host

(2014) L. Cayetano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How resident microbes modulate ecologically-important traits of insects

(2014) Kerry M Oliver et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

(2013) Jacob A. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of parasitism on aphid nutritional and protective symbioses

(2013) Adam J. Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Comparing constitutive and induced costs of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

(2013) Christoph Vorburger et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Host Defense via Symbiosis in Drosophila

(2013) Phineas T. Hamilton et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids

(2012) Kerry M Oliver et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Phage loss and the breakdown of a defensive symbiosis in aphids

(2012) S. R. Weldon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts

(2011) C. VORBURGER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Characterisation of immune responses in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2011) Alice M. Laughton et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Unravelling the effects of the environment and host genotype on the gut microbiome

(2011) Aymé Spor et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Insect immune responses to nematode parasites

(2011) Julio Cesar Castillo et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium

(2010) J A White et al.   HEREDITY

Insect immune resistance to parasitoids

(2010) Yves Carton et al.   Insect Science

Spiroplasma Bacteria Enhance Survival of Drosophila hydei Attacked by the Parasitic Wasp Leptopilina heterotoma

(2010) Jialei Xie et al.   PLoS One

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

(2009) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Impact of environmental stress on aphid clonal resistance to parasitoids: Role of Hamiltonella defensa bacterial symbiosis in association with a new facultative symbiont of the pea aphid

(2009) Jean-Frédéric Guay et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Diverse Phage-Encoded Toxins in a Protective Insect Endosymbiont

(2008) P. H. Degnan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Immunity in a variable world

(2008) B. P Lazzaro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES