I took a look at the paper, “Evidence of indirect symbiont conferred protection against the predatory lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in the pea aphid,” published in the BMC Ecology Journal.
Bibliography:
Kovacs, J. L., Wolf, C., Voisin, D., & Wolf, S. (2017). Evidence of indirect symbiont conferred protection against the predatory lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in the pea aphid. BMC Ecology, 17(1). doi:10.1186/s12898-017-0136-x (https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-017-0136-x)
This paper is a peer-reviewed, academic, research article.
The authors are professionals in the field, and the paper has in-text citations and a bibliography. The Journal says on its front page, that it is peer-reviewed. It belongs to the BMC portfolio of journals, which are published by Springer Nature, a well-known publisher of academic material. The journal has editors from a variety of different universities.
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