Figure 5From: Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproductionSpeed of fixation for the virginity mutation when male mating capacity varies. The number of generations required for the recessive mutant allele for fertilization rate of n = 0 ("virginity mutation") to spread so that 99% of all females are infected and homozygous for the mutant (Inn), when the number of females a male is capable of inseminating varies from 1 to 20 females. Calculations were done using the simulation model (additional file 1) with the following conditions: mutant sex ratio allele has a fertilization rate of n = 0 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 sex ratio 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%.Back to article page