Priority effects drive fungal and nematode emergence from insect larvae
Amaury Payelleville, Magdalena L. Warren, Chloe L. Golde, Devyn Sasai, Benny Pan, Patrick Cleary, Arizbel Gomez, Rubina Shrestha, Jean-Claude Ogier, Sophie Gaudriault, Christine Jacobs, Tadashi Fukami
The paper investigates priority effects between fungi and nematodes in insect larvae, finding that fungi arrive first and exclude nematodes, with a bacterium mediating this exclusion.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology · Apr 7, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology