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Martha S. Hunter
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 76
Citations - 6769
Martha S. Hunter is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cytoplasmic incompatibility. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 72 publications receiving 6148 citations. Previous affiliations of Martha S. Hunter include Cornell University.
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Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps
TL;DR: Investigation of aphids for vulnerability of the aphid host to a hymenopteran parasitoid, Aphidius ervi, shows that infection confers resistance to parasitoids attack by causing high mortality of developing Parasitoid larvae.
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Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype
TL;DR: Results indicate that symbiont-mediated resistance to parasitism is a general phenomenon in A. pisum and that, at least for the isolates and genotypes considered, it is the symbionT isolate that determines the level of resistance, not aphid genotype or any interaction between isolate and genotype.
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Rapid spread of a bacterial symbiont in an invasive whitefly is driven by fitness benefits and female bias.
Anna G. Himler,Tetsuya Adachi-Hagimori,Jacqueline E. Bergen,Amaranta Kozuch,Suzanne E. Kelly,Bruce E. Tabashnik,Elad Chiel,Elad Chiel,Victoria E. Duckworth,Timothy J. Dennehy,Timothy J. Dennehy,Einat Zchori-Fein,Martha S. Hunter +12 more
TL;DR: The observed increased performance and sex-ratio bias of infected whiteflies are sufficient to explain the spread of Rickettsia across the southwestern United States.
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Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism
TL;DR: The results show that these mobile genetic elements can endow a bacterial symbiont with benefits that extend to the animal host, and that phages vector ecologically important traits, such as defense against parasitoids, within and among Symbiont and animal host lineages.
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The emerging diversity of Rickettsia.
TL;DR: This review highlights the emerging diversity of Rickettsia species that are not associated with vertebrate pathogenicity, and focuses on the emergence ofRickettsia as a diverse reproductive manipulator of arthropods, similar to the closely related Wolbachia.