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| Title |
Aphid facultative symbionts reduce survival of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6785-14-5 |
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| Authors |
Kelly Costopoulos, Jennifer L Kovacs, Alexandra Kamins, Nicole M Gerardo |
| Abstract |
Non-essential facultative endosymbionts can provide their hosts with protection from parasites, pathogens, and predators. For example, two facultative bacterial symbionts of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), Serratia symbiotica and Hamiltonella defensa, protect their hosts from parasitism by two species of parasitoid wasp. Previous studies have not explored whether facultative symbionts also play a defensive role against predation in this system. We tested whether feeding on aphids harboring different facultative symbionts affected the fitness of an aphid predator, the lady beetle Hippodamia convergens. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 74 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 14% |
| Unknown | 12 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 49 | 64% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 4 | 5% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 1% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 15 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 April 2015.
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#1,207
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#44,698
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