Scientists have found a second bacterial infection that can cause an insect version of virgin births. And this one can do a new trick.
Parasitic Encarsia wasps, less than a millimeter long, catch a novel infection. J.K. Clark/M. Rose
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.
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