Sexual acquisition of beneficial symbionts in aphids.PDF

Sexual acquisition of beneficial symbionts in aphids Nancy A. Moran* and Helen E. Dunbar Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Contributed by Nancy A. Moran, July 10, 2006 A noted cost of mating is the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted tions (for details, see Materials and Methods ). The only losses infections that are detrimental to the recipient. But many microbial observed have been in lines that were initially doubly infected; associates of eukaryotes are mutualistic, raising the possibility that