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From: Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction

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Spread and subsequent fixation of a virginity mutant in a wild type population. Spread of the recessive mutant allele for fertilization rate of m = 0 ("virginity mutation") in a population with a wild type fertilization rate of x = 0.5. In generation 1 a PI-Wolbachia infection is entered in the population in 1% of the females, while at the same time the mutant fertilization rate allele is entered in 1% of the males. The PI-Wolbachia does not have any effect on the offspring production of the infected females (ω = 1) and has a transmission efficiency (α) of 95%. Calculations were done using the model described in additional file 1. A: Frequencies of the female genotypes for both infected (I) and uninfected (U) females, B: Frequencies of the male genotypes and C: Number of females in the population per male for all the female genotypes (nn, n+ and ++; solid line) and for those genotypes that are still fertilizing their eggs (n+ and ++; dotted line)

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