Phyllosphere bacterial communities in milkweeds: composition diverge as the season progresses, and links to cardenolides and arthropods depend on host identity
Danilo Ferreira Borges dos Santos, Victoria Marie Pocius, Luana Bresciani…·Mônica F. Kersch‐Becker
The paper examines how leaf bacterial communities in milkweeds change over a season, showing shifts from dispersal-driven homogenization to dispersal limitation, with host-specific effects on community composition and arthropod interactions.