Aphids saved from gruesome death by virus-infected bacteria

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

The term "beneficial virus" sounds like an oxymoron. But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new research.

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