Cytoplasmic incompatibility in social insects
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In this essay, I briefly summarise reproductive phenotypes associated withWolbachia in insects, present a model of the dynamics of infection frequency for maternally-inherited microorganisms and determine the effect of changing costs associated with incompatibility, infection-related fecundity loss and number of mates in ideal populations of social insects. The model predicts that infections of this type spread to fixation most easily in populations with a high cost due to incompatibility, little fecundity loss and where females have a large number of mates.
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