Feminizing Wolbachia endosymbiont disrupts maternal sex chromosome inheritance in a butterfly species
D. Kageyama, M. Ohno, T. Sasaki, A. Yoshido, T. Konagaya, A. Jouraku, S. Kuwazaki, H. Kanamori, Y. Katayose, S. Narita, M. Miyata, M. Riegler, K. Sahara
The paper shows Wolbachia causes segregation distortion in Eurema mandarina butterflies by feminizing Z0 lineages and preventing maternal sex chromosome inheritance.
bioRxiv · Jun 8, 2017Evolutionary Biology