Dillon, R J and Vennard, C T and Buckling, A and Charnley, A K (2005) Diversity of locust gut bacteria protects against pathogen invasion. Ecology Letters, 8 (12). pp. 1291-1298. ISSN 1461-023X
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Ecology Letters |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | colonization resistance ; diversity ; germ free ; locusts ; Schistocerca gregaria ; Serratia marcescens ; SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM INFECTION ; SCHISTOCERCA-GREGARIA ; DESERT LOCUST ; PARASITE VIRULENCE ; METARHIZIUM-ANISOPLIAE ; MULTIPLE INFECTION ; LINKING DIVERSITY ; GNOTOBIOTIC MICE ; COMMUNITIES ; RESISTANCE |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Health and Medicine > Biomedical & Life Sciences |
| ID Code: | 50569 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 29 Oct 2011 00:21 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 19:40 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/50569 |
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