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  bibo_abstract:
  - The fitness effects of symbionts on their hosts can be context-dependent, with
    usually benign symbionts causing detrimental effects when their hosts are stressed,
    or typically parasitic symbionts providing protection towards their hosts (e.g.
    against pathogen infection). Here, we studied the novel association between the
    invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus and its fungal ectosymbiont Laboulbenia formicarum
    for potential costs and benefits. We tested ants with different Laboulbenia levels
    for their survival and immunity under resource limitation and exposure to the
    obligate killing entomopathogen Metarhizium brunneum. While survival of L. neglectus
    workers under starvation was significantly decreased with increasing Laboulbenia
    levels, host survival under Metarhizium exposure increased with higher levels
    of the ectosymbiont, suggesting a symbiont-mediated anti-pathogen protection,
    which seems to be driven mechanistically by both improved sanitary behaviours
    and an upregulated immune system. Ants with high Laboulbenia levels showed significantly
    longer self-grooming and elevated expression of immune genes relevant for wound
    repair and antifungal responses (β-1,3-glucan binding protein, Prophenoloxidase),
    compared with ants carrying low Laboulbenia levels. This suggests that the ectosymbiont
    Laboulbenia formicarum weakens its ant host by either direct resource exploitation
    or the costs of an upregulated behavioural and immunological response, which,
    however, provides a prophylactic protection upon later exposure to pathogens.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Matthias
      foaf_name: Konrad, Matthias
      foaf_surname: Konrad
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=46528076-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Anna V
      foaf_name: Grasse, Anna V
      foaf_surname: Grasse
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=406F989C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simon
      foaf_name: Tragust, Simon
      foaf_surname: Tragust
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=35A7A418-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Sylvia
      foaf_name: Cremer, Sylvia
      foaf_surname: Cremer
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
    orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868
  bibo_doi: 10.5061/dryad.vm0vc
  dct_date: 2014^xs_gYear
  dct_publisher: Dryad@
  dct_title: 'Data from: Anti-pathogen protection versus survival costs mediated by
    an ectosymbiont in an ant host@'
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