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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Main Authors: Parratt, S, Frost, C, Schenkel, M, Rice, A, Hurst, G, King, K
Format: Journal article
Published: Public Library of Science 2016