Parasitic sex puppeteers
By directing its victims' sex lives, the bacterial parasite Wolbachia may be helping to produce new species. Wolbachia is capable of killing the males of a species, spreading itself through a female's eggs, and changing the sex of members of certain species; eventually, populations of inse...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Scientific American 2002-04, Vol.286 (4), p.57 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | By directing its victims' sex lives, the bacterial parasite Wolbachia may be helping to produce new species. Wolbachia is capable of killing the males of a species, spreading itself through a female's eggs, and changing the sex of members of certain species; eventually, populations of insects drift apart genetically until a new species arises. |
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| ISSN: | 0036-8733 1946-7087 |