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Male-Killing Bacteria In Insects

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A germ that kills males has triggered a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly, scientists report. The male-killing bacteria known as Wolbachia are extremely widespread in insects, found in more than one-fifth of species. The germs can turn males to females and cause infected females to […]

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