Autor: Hiroshi Arai, Toshiyuki Harumoto, Susumu Katsuma, Keisuke Nagamine, Daisuke Kageyama

Symbiosis is a fundamental characteristic of eukaryotic biology. Arthropods, including insects, often harbor maternally inherited endosymbiotic microbes, some of which have evolved the ability to selectively kill male hosts – a phenomenon known as ‘mal…