Levi W. Burdine

Mar 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Armin P Moczek |Patrick T. Rohner |Levi W. Burdine

1 INTRODUCTION Symbionts and hosts possess strong potential to influence each other's development and evolution (McFall-Ngai et al., 2013; Douglas, 2014; Gilbert et al., 2015; Grieneisen et al., 2020). Not surprisingly, both hosts and symbionts have evolved diverse strategies to ensure as well as constrain symbiont transmission across generations (Bright & Bulgheresi, 2010; Correa & Ballard, 2016; Rosenberg & Zilber-Rosenberg, 2021).