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Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F16%3A00464124" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/16:00464124 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12586/pdf" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12586/pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12586" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2656.12586</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

  • Original language description

    Eukaryotes commonly host communities of heritable symbiotic bacteria, many of which are not essential for their hosts' survival and reproduction. There is laboratory evidence that these facultative symbionts can provide useful adaptations, such as increased resistance to natural enemies. However, we do not know how symbionts affect host fitness when the latter are subject to attack by a natural suite of parasites and pathogens.nHere, we test whether two protective symbionts, Regiella insecticola and Hamiltonella defensa, increase the fitness of their host, the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), under natural conditions. We placed experimental populations of two pea aphid lines, each with and without symbionts, in five wet meadow sites to expose them to a natural assembly of enemy species. The aphids were then retrieved and mortality from parasitoids, fungal pathogens and other causes assessed.nWe found that both Regiella and Hamiltonella reduce the proportion of aphids killed by the specific natural enemies against which they have been shown to protect in laboratory and cage experiments. However, this advantage was nullified (Hamiltonella) or reversed (Regiella) by an increase in mortality from other natural enemies and by the cost of carrying the symbiont. Symbionts therefore affect community structure by altering the relative success of different natural enemies.nOur results show that protective symbionts are not necessarily advantageous to their hosts, and may even behave more like parasites than mutualists. Nevertheless, bacterial symbionts may play an important role in determining food web structure and dynamics.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    EH - Ecology - communities

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Animal Ecology

  • ISSN

    0021-8790

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    85

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    6

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    1605-1612

  • UT code for WoS article

    000388354200019

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-84988799880