Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of detecting the defenses of a second organism, where the two organisms are in a symbiotic interaction. (Gene Ontology, GO_0052173)
8 genes participating in the response to defenses of other organism involved in symbiotic interaction biological process from the curated GO Biological Process Annotations dataset.