Abstract

Our understanding of the nature of host-inherited symbiont interactions has advanced since the advent of PCR led to the widespread discovery of "Wolbachia " and its domination of the literature. The case studies above demonstrate the importance of a diversity of symbionts as a source of evolutionary innovation in insects: symbionts alter host phenotype, and because they are heritable form part of host adaptation. Perhaps the most remarkable observation of recent time is the speed of symbiont-associated adaptation.

Details

Title
Arthropods and inherited bacteria: from counting the symbionts to understanding how symbionts count
Author
Duron, Olivier; Hurst, Gregory DD
Pages
45
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17417007
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1327512623
Copyright
© 2013 Duron and Hurst; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.