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A male-killing Wolbachia carries a feminizing factor and is associated with degradation of the sex-determining system of its host.

Biology letters - 23 Jun 2012

Sugimoto Takafumi N, Ishikawa Yukio

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Endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia induce diverse reproductive alterations in their insect hosts. Wolbachia (wSca) infecting the moth Ostrinia scapulalis causes unusual male killing, in which males (genotype: ZZ) selectively die during embryonic and larval development, whereas females (genotype: ZW), in turn, selectively die when cured of infection. To gain insight into the interaction between wSca and...

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PMID: 22219393
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1114
PMCID: PMC3367752

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