ReviewHeredity2017
Heritable symbionts in a world of varying temperature.
Review in Heredity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Temperature-sensitive cytoplasmic incompatibility across divergentbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Host-Associated Bacterial Community Changes After Laboratory Introduction Vary With Wolbachia Presence.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Temperature overrides nutritional cues for optimal oviposition decision in a polyphagous invasive insect.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Climate variability disrupts microbial mutualism-driven population persistence.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Emergent symbiont strains provide thermally robust protection against co-evolved and novel parasitoids of introduced pea aphids.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Arctic Insects Show a Highly Dynamic Microbiome Shaped by Abiotic and Biotic Variables.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
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- Monitoring the Capacity ofInsects · 2025Article
- Facultative EndosymbiontPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Genomic structure and life history variation of isofemale lineages of Myzus persicae with different levels of parasitization by Diaeretiella rapae.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evolutionary Diversification and Functions of the Candidate Male Killing Gene wmk.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Analysis of the tripartite interactions between two bacterial symbionts, a novelMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Stochastic Fluctuations of the Facultative EndosymbiontEcology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Heritable microbes represent an important component of the biology, ecology and evolution of many plants, animals and fungi, acting as both parasites and partners. In this review, we examine how heritable symbiont-host interactions may alter host thermal tolerance, and how the dynamics of these interactions may more generally be altered by thermal environment. Obligate symbionts, those required by their host, are considered to represent a thermally sensitive weak point for their host, associated with accumulation of deleterious mutations. As such, these symbionts may represent an important determinant of host thermal envelope and spatial distribution. We then examine the varied relationship between thermal environment and the frequency of facultative symbionts that provide ecologically contingent benefits or act as parasites. We note that some facultative symbionts directly alter host thermotolerance. We outline how thermal environment will alter the benefits/costs of infection more widely, and additionally modulate vertical transmission efficiency. Multiple patterns are observed, with symbionts being cold sensitive in some species and heat sensitive in others, with varying and non-coincident thresholds at which phenotype and transmission are ablated. Nevertheless, it is clear that studies aiming to predict ecological and evolutionary dynamics of symbiont-host interactions need to examine the interaction across a range of thermal environments. Finally, we discuss the importance of thermal sensitivity in predicting the success/failure of symbionts to spread into novel species following natural/engineered introduction.
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