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Diversity of locust gut bacteria protects against pathogen invasion
Abstract
Diversity–invasibility relationships were explored in the novel context of the colonization resistance provided by gut bacteria of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria against pathogenic bacteria. Germ‐free insects were associated with various combinations of one to three species of locust gut bacteria and then fed an inoculum of the pathogenic bacterium Serratia marcescens. There was a significant negative relationship between the resulting density of Serratia marcescens and the number of symbiotic gut bacterial species present. Likewise there was a significant inverse relationship between community diversity and the proportion of locusts that harboured Serratia. Host mortality was not negatively correlated with resistance to gut‐invasion by Serratia marcescens, although there were significantly more deaths among pathogen fed germ‐free insects than tri‐associated gnotobiotes. The outcome is consistent with the predictions of community ecology theory that species‐rich communities are more resistant to invasion than species‐poor communities.
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- Authors
- Dillon, R. J., Vennard, C. T., Buckling, A., & Charnley, A. K.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-10-12
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1291-1298
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W2111354456
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 41
- FWCI
- 4.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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