A male-killing bacterium results in female-biased sex ratios in green lacewings
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 13:01
in Biology & Nature
A maternally transmitted Spiroplasma bacterium is the likely cause of the green lacewing's female-biased sex ratio, according to a study published June 15, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Masayuki Hayashi from Chiba University, Japan, and colleagues.