Transmission efficiency drives host-microbe associations
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...Surprisingly, our results also suggested that the relative fitness of host carriers versus non-carriers was less important for increasing host–microbe carriers than the existence of efficient microbial transmission [1]....
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...Microbial symbionts can play crucial roles in many aspects of an organism’s biology [1] and associations between hosts andmicrobes can vary from commensal and parasitic relationships, through to obligate mutualisms inwhich the fate ofmicrobe and host are intimately entwined [2]....
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...by host diet selection [17,18], screening [5,19–21], gut physiology [22] or by spatial compartmentalization of microbial species within the gut [10]....
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...In general, we expect environmental acquisition or HT to be less efficient than VT, lowering the likelihood that host–microbe associations will evolve [5,10,32,33]....
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...Maternal inheritance is not restricted to intracellular symbionts, and there are increasing reports of symbiotic gut bacteria being transmitted from mother to offspring [10,11]....
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...Host-led control of colonization could also be influenced by the morphological and physio-chemical conditions in the host gut [10]....
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...Host-led selection, in particular, is thought to promote parallelism/phylosymbiosis at a functional, but not necessarily taxonomic, level [50,51]....
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...The lack of specialism and relaxed ecological constraints requiredmaymake this a frequent mechanism for symbiotic transmission [2,14,70]....
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...Many insects carry heritable microbes [2,6,7] including the widespread intracellular symbionts Rickettsia, Cardinium and Wolbachia....
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...The high fidelity of VT has facilitated the transition of many heritable symbionts to obligate associations, leading to the loss of their ability to propagate independently [2]....
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...Microbial symbionts can play crucial roles in many aspects of an organism’s biology [1] and associations between hosts andmicrobes can vary from commensal and parasitic relationships, through to obligate mutualisms inwhich the fate ofmicrobe and host are intimately entwined [2]....
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