That's pretty cool. Semi-relevant: Richard Dawkins touches upon the relationship between the genes of parasites and hosts in the Chap. 13, "The Long Reach of t

That's pretty cool. Semi-relevant: Richard Dawkins touches upon the relationship between the genes of parasites and hosts in the Chap. 13, "The Long Reach of the Gene" (added in 2. ed.) of his book "The Selfish Gene". He says that if the parasite genes are "transmitted to future generations via the same vehicles as the host's genes [...], the parasite will do all that it can to help the host, not only to survive, but to reproduce. Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite, will cooperate with the host, and may eventually merge into the host's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all." [0] P.S. Apropos of Wolbachia, did you also play MGS V recently?;P [0]: https://books.google.no/books?id=koaD_Aod_V0C&lpg=PT343&ots=m91oEBweVD&dq=the%20selfish%20gene%20parasite&hl=no&pg=PT343#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.no/books?id=koaD_Aod_V0C&lpg=PT343&ots=...