Two new publications

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• 21st February 2015
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Ex-iPEG PhD student Clare Benskin publishes a paper from her PhD thesis on blue tit microbiota in the journal Ecology & Evolution. The paper is entitled “Life history correlates of faecal bacterial species richness in a wild population of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus.” and is co-authored by Ken, Glenn Rhodes, Roger Pickup, Mark Mainwaring and Ian Hartley. Ken is also a co-author on a paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, looking at the effects of nutrition on an insect symbiotic bacterium. The paper, entitled “Macronutrients mediate the functional relationship between Drosophila and Wolbachia” is led by Fleur Ponton and co-authored by other University of Sydney collaborators: Andy Holmes, Dave Raubenheimer, Katie Robinson and Steve Simpson. Click on the Publications tab for further details.