Talk:Cytoplasmic incompatibility

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The first version of this article was created as part of a classroom assignment in a course of theoretical biology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Hu.ben (talk) 13:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plants?

I think this article needs to be expanded to discuss the topic more broadly. Example it doesn't mention plants and hybrids.88.115.35.152 (talk) 20:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, as I'm not aware of any instances of cytoplasmic incompatibility in plants. (There is the related phenomenon of cytoplasmic male sterility but this is quite distinct.) Liriobacter (talk) 06:28, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ToDos

I think there are a few things that can be improved in this article:

- Update the "Mechanisms" section: a lot of new results have been published (cif genes etc.) since this article was written

- Separate section "Evolutionary implications" into one on "Population biology" (describing how CI-inducing microbes can spread in a population) and one on "Evolutionary consequences" (which could cover topics such as CI-induced speciation)

- New section on applications of CI (including dengue control in mosquitoes)

I'm planning to do all this over the next weeks. Liriobacter (talk) 06:46, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]