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...
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Public Library of Science
2016
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