Jennifer A. White

The paper tests how warm temperatures affect the spread of heritable symbionts in spider populations, finding that warm conditions reduce symbiont spread and disrupt co-infections.

The paper identifies Wolbachia strain W1 as the feminizing agent in spiders and shows that co-infecting symbionts enhance feminization efficacy.

This study investigates how temperature affects cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in Rickettsiella-infected spiders, finding that warm temperatures reduce CI induction but not rescue.