Wolbachia-mediated male killing is associated with defective chromatin remodeling.
Male killing, induced by different bacterial taxa of maternally inherited microorganisms, resulting in highly distorted female-biased sex-ratios, is a common phenomenon among arthropods. Some strains of the endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia have been shown to induce this phenotype in particular insect...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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