Frequent Drivers, Occasional Passengers: Signals of Symbiont-Driven Seasonal Adaptation and Hitchhiking in the Pea Aphid, <i>Acyrthosiphon pisum</i>

Frequent Drivers, Occasional Passengers: Signals of Symbiont-Driven Seasonal Adaptation and Hitchhiking in the Pea Aphid, <i>Acyrthosiphon pisum</i>

Insects harbor a variety of maternally inherited bacterial symbionts. As such, variation in symbiont presence/absence, in the combinations of harbored symbionts, and in the genotypes of harbored symbiont species provide heritable genetic variation of potential use in the insects’ adaptive repertoire...

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Main Authors: Melissa Carpenter, Linyao Peng, Andrew H. Smith, Jonah Joffe, Michael O’Connor, Kerry M. Oliver, Jacob A. Russell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Insects
Subjects:
adaptation
symbiont
bacteria
<i>Wolbachia</i>
aphid
hitchhiking
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/9/805

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