Current Opinion in Insect Science

Journal: Current Opinion in Insect Science

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Elsevier

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2214-5753
2214-5745

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Herbivore-induced plant volatiles in natural and agricultural ecosystems: Open questions and future prospects
Gish, Moshe; De Moraes, Consuelo M.; Mescher, Mark C. (2015)
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Function and mechanisms in defence strategies
Schmid-Hempel, Paul (2022)
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A useful discussion of defence strategies cannot do without linking defence mechanisms to their function, that is, their contributions to fitness. Whereas the former is the domain of immunology, the latter is the subject of evolutionary ecology. For this, the concepts of the defence chart and the disease space can be used to connect the two domains and to sharpen the focus. These use different approaches but converge to the same end, that is, to understand what fitness costs and benefits are associated with existing mechanisms and how to identify the best defence strategy in a given environment.
Effects of malaria infection on mosquito olfaction and behavior: extrapolating data to the field
Stanczyk, Nina M.; Mescher, Mark C.; De Moraes, Consuelo M. (2017)
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The functional decoupling of processes in alpine ecosystems under climate change
Pellissier, Loïc; Rasmann, Sergio (2018)
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Clines of resistance to parasitoids: the multifarious effects of temperature on defensive symbioses in insects
Hudson, Cameron M.; Stalder, Dominic; Vorburger, Christoph (2024)
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Insects are frequently infected with heritable bacterial endosymbionts. Some of them confer resistance to parasitoids. Such defensive symbionts are sensitive to variation in temperature. Drawing predominantly from the literature on aphids and flies, we show that temperature can affect the reliability of maternal transmission and the strength of protection provided by defensive symbionts. Costs of infection with defensive symbionts can also be temperature-dependent and may even turn into benefits under extreme temperatures, for example, when defensive symbionts increase heat tolerance. Alone or in combination, these mechanisms can drive temperature-associated (latitudinal) clines of infection prevalence with defensive symbionts. This has important consequences for host–parasitoid coevolution, as the relative importance of host-encoded vs. symbiont-provided defenses will shift along such clines.
Editorial overview: Ecology: The chemical ecology of human disease transmission by mosquito vectors
Mescher, Mark C.; De Moraes, Consuelo M. (2017)
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Diversity begets diversity: do parasites promote variation in protective symbionts?
Hafer, Nina; Vorburger, Christoph (2019)
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