Defensive symbionts in aphids and other insects / Kerry M. Oliver and Nancy A. Moran -- Fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis : using microbes to defend beneficial associations within symbiotic communities / Michael Poulsen, Ainslie E.F. Little, and Cameron R. Currie.
Habitat-adapted symbiosis as a defense against abiotic and biotic stresses / Rusty J. Rodriguez [and others] -- Insect herbivory and defensive mutualisms between plants and fungi / Alison J. Popay -- Fungal endophytes : defensive characteristics and implications for agricultural applications / Luis C. Mejía [and others] -- Endophytic niche and grass defense / Charles W. Bacon, Dorothy M. Hinton, and Anthony E. Glenn.
pt. I : Overview of mutualistic associations and defense. Introduction : symbiosis, defensive mutualism, and variations on the theme / James F. White, Jr. and Mónica S. Torres -- Defensive mutualism and grass endophytes : still valid after all these years? / Keith Clay -- Overview of defensive mutualism in the marine environment / Chares F. Wimpee, Elizabeth A. O'Grady, and Erika L. Olson -- pt. II : Prokaryotic defensive symbionts. Microbial symbionts for defense and competition among ciliate hosts / Hans-Dieter Görtz [and others] -- Bacterial chemical defenses and marine animal hosts / Eric W. Schmidt -- Is the Vibrio fischeri-Euprymna scolopes symbiosis a defensive mutualism? / Eric V. Stabb and Deborah S. Millikan -- Entomopathogenic nematode and bacteria mutualism / Heather S. Koppenhöfer and Randy Gaugler -- Interspecies competition in a bacteria-nematode mutualism / Nydia Morales-Soto, Holly Snyder, and Steven Forst.
pt. III : Eukaryotic defensive symbionts. Chemical defense in lichen symbioses / James D. Lawrey -- Arbuscular mycorrhizae as defense against pathogens / José Manuel García Garrido -- Evaluation of mycorrhizal symbioses as defense in extreme environments / John Dighton -- Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis on enhancement of tolerance to abiotic stresses / Hinanit Koltai and Yoram Kapulnik -- Conifer endophytes / Anna Maria Pirttilä and Piippa R. Wäli -- Diversity and ecological roles of clavicipitaceous endophytes of grasses / Mariusz Tadych, Mónica S. Torres, and James F. White, Jr. -- Contributions of pharmaceutical antibiotic and secondary metabolite discovery to the understanding of microbial defense and antagonism / Gerald Bills [and others] -- pt. IV : Fungal endophyte as model system to understand defensive mutualism. Extensions to and modulation of defensive mutualism in grass endophytes / Thomas L. Bultman [and others] -- Conceptual model for the analysis of plant-endophyte symbiosis in relation to abiotic stress / Gregory P. Cheplick.