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| Title |
Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-10-229 |
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| Authors |
Richard Stouthamer, James E Russell, Fabrice Vavre, Leonard Nunney |
| Abstract |
The maternally inherited, bacterial symbiont, parthenogenesis inducing (PI) Wolbachia, causes females in some haplodiploid insects to produce daughters from both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. The symbionts, with their maternal inheritance, benefit from inducing the production of exclusively daughters, however the optimal sex ratio for the nuclear genome is more male-biased. Here we examine through models how an infection with PI-Wolbachia in a previously uninfected population leads to a genomic conflict between PI-Wolbachia and the nuclear genome. In most natural populations infected with PI-Wolbachia the infection has gone to fixation and sexual reproduction is impossible, specifically because the females have lost their ability to fertilize eggs, even when mated with functional males. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 129 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 4 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 116 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 21% |
| Researcher | 21 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 14 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 75 | 58% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 23 | 18% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 2 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Unknown | 16 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 August 2010.
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#6,443,722
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,412
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Outputs of similar age
#30,048
of 103,502 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#22
of 48 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 3,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
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