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Meet the Herod bug

Jonathan Knight

Nature, 2001, vol. 412, issue 6842, 12-14

Abstract: A parasitic bacterium that uses an array of dastardly tricks to favour female hosts over males is holding evolutionary biologists in thrall. Jonathan Knight enters the strange world of Wolbachia.

Date: 2001
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