Wolbachia Horizontal Transmission Events in Ants: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn?

Wolbachia Horizontal Transmission Events in Ants: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn?

While strict vertical transmission insures the durability of intracellular symbioses, phylogenetic incongruences between hosts and endosymbionts suggest horizontal transmission must also occur. These horizontal acquisitions can have important implications for the biology of the host. Wolbachia is on...

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Main Authors: Sarah J. A. Tolley, Peter Nonacs, Panagiotis Sapountzis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
symbiosis
fungus-growing ants
horizontal transmission
social interactions
Wolbachia
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00296/full

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