Temperature stress induces mites to help their carrion beetle hosts by eliminating rival blowflies
Ecological conditions are known to change the expression of mutualisms though the causal agents driving such changes remain poorly understood. Here we show that temperature stress modulates the harm threatened by a common enemy, and thereby induces a phoretic mite to become a protective mutualist. O...
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| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2020-08-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/55649 |