SELPLG and infection: We also showed that in addition to wMelPop-CLA [27], the wMel3562 strain establishes an infection density higher than wMelCS and induces pathology in the fly host, however, the Octomom region is absent in wMelPop-CLA [21] and uncommon within mixed D. melanogaster populations of wMel3562 (Fig 6).