Continuously high Wolbachia incidence in flea populations may result from dual-strain infections with divergent effects

Abstract The continuously high incidence of some endosymbionts in arthropods despite potential conflicts with their hosts is often explained by obligatory relationships, in which the host is fully dependent on its endosymbiont, fitness advantages conferred on hosts by facultative endosymbionts, or r...

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Main Authors: Ron Flatau, Aleksandra I. Krawczyk, Michal Segoli, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Hadas Hawlena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-09403-2
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