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Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity |
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| Authors: | Sara L Goodacre Oliver Y Martin Dries Bonte Linda Hutchings Chris Woolley Kamal Ibrahim CF George Thomas Godfrey M Hewitt |
| Institution: | 1. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 6. Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, UK 2. Experimental Ecology, Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 3. Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium 4. Seale-Hayne Campus, University of Plymouth, Newton Abbot, UK 5. Department of Zoology, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, IL, USA |
| Abstract: | BackgroundDispersal plays a key role in shaping biological and ecological processes such as the distribution of spatially-structured populations or the pace and scale of invasion. Here we have studied the relationship between long-distance dispersal behaviour of a pest-controlling money spider,Erigone atra, and the distribution of maternally acquired endosymbionts within the wider meta-population. This spider persists in heterogeneous environments because of its ability to recolonise areas through active long-distance airborne dispersal using silk as a sail, in a process termed 'ballooning'. |
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