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Mobile male-killer: similar Wolbachia strains kill males of divergent Drosophila hosts.

Heredity - 1 Mar 2009

Sheeley S L, McAllister B F

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Wolbachia are capable of eliciting a variety of reproductive phenotypes from their hosts, including the production of an all-female progeny through embryonic male-killing. To date, phylogenetic analyses indicate six independent acquisitions of the ability to kill male embryos among Wolbachia strains which infect insects. Of these six strains, only one appears to have experienced horizontal transmission between...

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PMID: 19142204
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.126

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