Virgin birth infections shift wasp targets
By Susan Milius
Scientists have found a second bacterial infection that can cause an insect version of virgin births. And this one can do a new trick.
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Not only does this bacterium cause unfertilized female wasps to produce daughters, but it can also affect which insects the female wasps inject with a fatal dose of eggs, says Molly S. Hunter of the University of Arizona in Tucson.