2020
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202008.0350.v2
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<strong>Symbiont-mediated Cytoplasmic Incompatibility:</strong><strong>What Have We Learned in 50 years?</strong>

Abstract: Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most common symbiont-induced reproductive manipulation. Specifically, symbiont-induced sperm modifications cause catastrophic mitotic defects in the fertilized embryo and ensuing lethality in crosses between symbiotic males and either aposymbiotic females or females harboring a different symbiont strain. However, if the female carries the same symbiont strain, then embryos develop properly, which imparts a relative fitness benefit to symbiont-transmitting mothers. Thus, … Show more

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