Superparasitism Drives Heritable Symbiont Epidemiology and Host Sex Ratio in a Wasp.
Heritable microbial symbionts have profound impacts upon the biology of their arthropod hosts. Whilst our current understanding of the dynamics of these symbionts is typically cast within a framework of vertical transmission only, horizontal transmission has been observed in a number of cases. For i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4920596?pdf=render |