Multiple causes of male-killing in a sin
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Michael E. N. Majerus; Hinrich; Schulenburg; Ilia A. Zakharov
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Article
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2000
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Nature Publishing Group
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English
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Thirty-six matrilines from a single Muscovite sample of Adalia bipunctata were assayed, using appropriate primers, for presence of the four male-killing symbionts known to infect this species of ladybird. All four, a Rickettsia, a Spiroplasma and two different strains of Wolbachia, were found to be