Beetles Get by With a Little Help From Their Friends

Courtesy NSF News  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 14:00

A diagram shows the complex interactions of beetles, mites, two fungi and a bacterium.

Humans living in communities often rely on friends to help get what they need and, according to researchers in the lab of Cameron Currie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, many microbes, plants and animals benefit from 'friendly' associations too.

The Currie team's study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the Oct. 3, 2008, issue of the journal Science , describes the complex relationship between a beetle, two types of tree fungus ......


 

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