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.

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