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    Obligate mutualism within a host drives the extreme specialization of a fig wasp genome

    Fig pollinating wasps form obligate symbioses with their fig hosts. This mutualism arose approximately 75 million years ago. Unlike many other intimate symbioses, which involve vertical transmission of symbion...

    **-Hua **ao, Zhen Yue, Ling-Yi Jia, **n-Hua Yang, Li-Hua Niu, Zhuo Wang in Genome Biology (2013)