Wolbachia : A Tale of Sex and Survival
- 11 May 2001
- news
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 292 (5519) , 1093-1095
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.292.5519.1093
Abstract
By manipulating the sex lives of its hosts, the ubiquitous bacterium Wolbachia --perhaps the most common infectious bacterium on Earth--boosts its own reproductive success. Although no vertebrates (humans included) are known to carry Wolbachia, it is rampant in the invertebrate world, showing up in everything from fruit flies to shrimp, spiders, and even parasitic worms and turning the study of Wolbachia into a cottage industry among evolutionary biologists. Researchers suspect that Wolbachia may even provide clues to how species originate.Keywords
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