Report for: Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

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Title	Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity
Published in	BMC Biology, June 2009
DOI	10.1186/1741-7007-7-32
Pubmed ID	19545353
Authors	Sara L Goodacre, Oliver Y Martin, Dries Bonte, Linda Hutchings, Chris Woolley, Kamal Ibrahim, CF George Thomas, Godfrey M Hewitt
Abstract	Dispersal plays a key role in shaping biological and ecological processes such as the distribution of spatially-structured populations or the pace and scale of invasion. Here we have studied the relationship between long-distance dispersal behaviour of a pest-controlling money spider, Erigone atra, and the distribution of maternally acquired endosymbionts within the wider meta-population. This spider persists in heterogeneous environments because of its ability to recolonise areas through active long-distance airborne dispersal using silk as a sail, in a process termed 'ballooning'.

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Country	Count	As %
Finland	1	50%
Unknown	1	50%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	1	50%
Scientists	1	50%

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Country	Count	As %
Japan	3	2%
France	1	<1%
Réunion	1	<1%
Sudan	1	<1%
Czechia	1	<1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Canada	1	<1%
Finland	1	<1%
Sri Lanka	1	<1%
Other	3	2%
Unknown	136	91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	40	27%
Researcher	26	17%
Student > Master	24	16%
Student > Bachelor	15	10%
Professor	9	6%
Other	20	13%
Unknown	16	11%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	97	65%
Environmental Science	15	10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	8	5%
Medicine and Dentistry	3	2%
Social Sciences	2	1%
Other	4	3%
Unknown	21	14%

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Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

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