Pol Nadal-Jimenez, Crystal L Frost, Ana Cláudia Norte, Jorge Garrido-Bautista, Timothy E Wilkes, Rowan Connell, Annabel Rice, Indrikis Krams, Tapio Eeva, Phillipe Christe, Gregorio Moreno-Rueda, Gregory D D Hurst
Heritable microbes that exhibit reproductive parasitism are common in insects. One class of these are the male-killing bacteria, which are found in a broad range of insect hosts. Commonly, our knowledge of the incidence of these microbes is based on one or a few sampling sites, and the degree and causes of spatial variation are unclear. In this paper, we examine the incidence of the son-killer microbe Arsenophonus nasoniae across European populations of its wasp host, Nasonia vitripennis. In preliminary work, we noticed two female N...
June 5, 2023: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology