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"Mothers kill sons, sons kill brothers.
Cytoplasmic endosymbionts are selected to kill sons when they compete with their sisters (that do propagate the endosymbionts) for limiting resources shared among siblings and/or when sons reduce their sisters' inclusive fitness by sib-matings that induce sufficiently strong inbreeding depression (reviewed in chapter 3 of Burt and Trivers 2006).
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Maternally transmitted cytoplasmic endosymbionts, such as Wolbachia and Spiroplasma, can contribute to another well-established form of intragenomic conflict by killing sons (hereafter son-killing or SK), i.e., killing the sex that does not propagate them.
But you, Martin, have wrongly killed sons too, and so also we want nothing to do with you".
When some damaged, Y-bearing sperm survive and fertilize eggs, then the segregation distortion phenotype could be expanded by harming or killing sons in the next generation.
Gunmen duly killed Son Sen and his family on June 9th.
Israeli airstrike in Syria kills son of late Hezbollah commander.
Mothers came together to protest the futility of their sons killing the sons of other mothers.
"Melvin didn't raise his son to kill my son".
Please don't kill our sons".
"You kill my son; I kill yours".
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