Reproductive Microbiomes and the Sexual Transmission of Beneficial Microbes: Reply to Lombardo et al

Trends Ecol Evol. 2020 Nov;35(11):964-965. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.08.017. Epub 2020 Sep 14.

Authors

Melissah Rowe¹, Liisa Veerus², Pål Trosvik³, Angus Buckling⁴, Tommaso Pizzari²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 6700 AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: M.Rowe@nioo.knaw.nl.
² Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
³ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway.
⁴ Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK.

PMID: 32943218
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.08.017

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Keywords: beneficial sexually transmitted microbes; multiple mating; sexual selection.

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