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Male-Killing Bacteria in a Parasitic Wasp
Abstract
A rod-shaped bacterium has been isolated that kills male eggs of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis , a pupal parasite of flies. Only some wasps of this species express this son-killer trait, and these wasps have bacterial infections in various organs. The bacterium was isolated from son-killer wasp tissue and from the hemolymph of fly pupae parasitized by wasps expressing the son-killer trait. Bacteria are apparently transferred to parasitized fly pupae during wasp oviposition, and developing wasp offspring are subsequently infected perorally. Sex-ratio distortion by microorganisms is found in a variety of plants and animals. The infectious peroral transmission of this trait is in contrast to the typical pattern of cytoplasmic inheritance of sex-ratio distortion in these other systems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Werren, J. H., Skinner, S. W., & Huger, A. M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1986-02-28
- Volume
- 231
- Issue
- 4741
- Pages
- 990-992
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2014887842
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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