Changes in endosymbiont complexity drive host-level compensatory adaptations in cicadas
M. A. Campbell, P. Łukasik, M. M. Meyer, M. Buckner, C. Simon, C. Veloso, A. Michalik, J. P. McCutcheon
The paper shows that cicadas with more complex Hodgkinia endosymbiont lineages increase the number of Hodgkinia cells transmitted to eggs to ensure full complement transmission.
bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2018Evolutionary Biology