Understanding plant community responses to combinations of biotic and abiotic factors in different phases of the plant growth cycle.

Understanding plant community responses to combinations of biotic and abiotic factors is critical for predicting ecosystem response to environmental change.However, studies of plant community regulation have seldom considered how responses to such factors vary with the different phases of the plant growth cycle.To address this deficit we studied an

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Evidence for Common Horizontal Transmission of Wolbachia among Ants and Ant Crickets: Kleptoparasitism Added to the List

While Wolbachia, an intracellular bacterial symbiont, is primarily transmitted maternally in arthropods, horizontal transmission between species has been commonly documented.We examined kleptoparasitism as a potential mechanism for Wolbachia horizontal transmission, using ant crickets and their host ants as the model system.We compared Drinkware pr

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