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Can a Symbiont (Also) Be Food? by Hoang, Kim L., Morran, Levi T., Gerardo, Nicole M.

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Experimental Evolution as an Underutilized Tool for Studying Beneficial Animal-Microbe Interactions by Hoang, Kim L, Morran, Levi T, Gerardo, Nicole M

“…Microorganisms play a significant role in the evolution and functioning of the eukaryotes with which they interact. Much of our understanding of beneficial…”
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The effects of Bacillus subtilis on Caenorhabditis elegans fitness after heat stress by Hoang, Kim L., Gerardo, Nicole M., Morran, Levi T.

“…Microbes can provide their hosts with protection from biotic and abiotic factors. While many studies have examined how certain bacteria can increase host…”
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How symbiosis and ecological context influence the variable expression of transgenerational wing induction upon fungal infection of aphids by Tan, Wen-Hao, Reyes, Miguel L, Hoang, Kim L, Acevedo, Tarik, Leon, Fredrick, Barbosa, Joshua D, Gerardo, Nicole M

“…Aphids, like most animals, mount a diverse set of defenses against pathogens. For aphids, two of the best studied defenses are symbiont-conferred protection…”
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Association with a novel protective microbe facilitates host adaptation to a stressful environment by Hoang, Kim L., Gerardo, Nicole M., Morran, Levi T.

“…Protective symbionts can allow hosts to occupy otherwise uninhabitable niches. Despite the importance of symbionts in host evolution, we know little about how…”
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Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses by Gerardo, Nicole M, Hoang, Kim L, Stoy, Kayla S

“…Immune system processes serve as the backbone of animal defences against pathogens and thus have evolved under strong selection and coevolutionary dynamics…”
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Symbiosis and host responses to heating by Hector, Tobias E., Hoang, Kim L., Li, Jingdi, King, Kayla C.

“…Virtually all organisms are colonized by microbes. Average temperatures are rising because of global climate change – accompanied by increases in extreme…”
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Defense Heterogeneity in Host Populations Gives Rise to Pathogen Diversity by Hoang, Kim L, Read, Timothy D, King, Kayla C

“…AbstractHost organisms can harbor microbial symbionts that defend them from pathogen infection in addition to the resistance encoded by the host genome. Here,…”
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Incomplete immunity in a natural animal-microbiota interaction selects for higher pathogen virulence by Hoang, Kim L, Read, Timothy D, King, Kayla C

“…Incomplete immunity in recovered hosts is predicted to favor more virulent pathogens upon re-infection in the population. The microbiota colonizing animals can…”
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Symbiont-mediated immune priming in animals through an evolutionary lens by Hoang, Kim L, King, Kayla C

“…Protective symbionts can defend hosts from parasites through several mechanisms, from direct interference to modulating host immunity, with subsequent effects…”
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Symbiosis: Partners in crime by Hoang, Kim L, King, Kayla C

“…Defensive symbionts protect their hosts against imminent threats. A new study uncovers a symbiosis whereby a fungus safeguards its beetle host from predation,…”
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Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition by Li, Jingdi, Bates, Kieran A., Hoang, Kim L., Hector, Tobias E., Knowles, Sarah C. L., King, Kayla C.

“…Global climate change has led to more extreme thermal events. Plants and animals harbour diverse microbial communities, which may be vital for their…”
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Coevolution's conflicting role in the establishment of beneficial associations by Hoang, Kim L., Choi, Heidi, Gerardo, Nicole M., Morran, Levi T.

“…Reciprocal adaptation between hosts and symbionts can drive the maintenance of symbioses, resulting in coevolution and beneficial genotypic interactions…”
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The impacts of host association and perturbation on symbiont fitness by Hoang, Kim L., Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Pike, Victoria L., King, Kayla C.

“…Symbiosis can benefit hosts in numerous ways, but less is known about whether interactions with hosts benefit symbionts—the smaller species in the…”
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Trade‐offs in defence to pathogen species revealed in expanding nematode populations by Ordovás‐Montañés, María, Preston, Gail M., Hoang, Kim L., Rafaluk‐Mohr, Charlotte, King, Kayla C.

“…Many host organisms live in polymicrobial environments and must respond to a diversity of pathogens. The degree to which host defences towards one pathogen…”
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Heterologous expression of human mPRα, mPRβ and mPRγ in yeast confirms their ability to function as membrane progesterone receptors by Smith, Jessica L., Kupchak, Brian R., Garitaonandia, Ibon, Hoang, L. Kim, Maina, Andrew S., Regalla, Lisa M., Lyons, Thomas J.

“…The nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) mediates many of the physiological effects of progesterone by regulating the expression of genes, however, progesterone…”
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Heterologous expression of human mPRalpha, mPRbeta and mPRgamma in yeast confirms their ability to function as membrane progesterone receptors by Smith, Jessica L, Kupchak, Brian R, Garitaonandia, Ibon, Hoang, L Kim, Maina, Andrew S, Regalla, Lisa M, Lyons, Thomas J

“…The nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) mediates many of the physiological effects of progesterone by regulating the expression of genes, however, progesterone…”
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