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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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Autores principales: Parratt, Steven R., Frost, Crystal L., Schenkel, Martijn A., Rice, Annabel, Hurst, Gregory D. D., King, Kayla C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27322651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005629