PURGING COMPETITORS. “Due to imperfect vertical transmission and potential physiological costs imposed on hosts, facultative endosymbionts are relying on various manipulative strategies to persist in a host population. For example, some are male-killers or exert cytoplasmatic incompatibility (CI) when their host engages in reproduction with a partner that harbors an unrelated endosymbiont.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022