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SUBMITTER: Sun SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7431131 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Syuan-Jyun SJ Kilner Rebecca M RM
eLife 20200805
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. Our experiments focus on the interactions between the burying beetle <i>Nicrophorus vespilloides</i>, an associated mite species <i>Poecilochirus carabi</i> and their common enemy, blowflies, when all ...[more]