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Should Symbionts Be Nice or Selfish? Antiviral Effects of Wolbachia Are Costly but Reproductive Parasitism Is Not

Symbionts can have mutualistic effects that increase their host’s fitness and/or parasitic effects that reduce it. Which of these strategies evolves depends in part on the balance of their costs and benefits to the symbiont. We have examined these questions in Wolbachia, a vertically transmitted end...

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Autores principales: Martinez, Julien, Ok, Suzan, Smith, Sophie, Snoeck, Kiana, Day, Jon P., Jiggins, Francis M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26132467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005021