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Wolbachia feminizes a spider host with assistance from co-infecting symbionts
Virginija Mackevicius‐Dubickaja, Yuval Gottlieb, Jennifer A. White, Matthew R. Doremus
The paper identifies Wolbachia strain W1 as the feminizing agent in spiders and shows that co-infecting symbionts enhance feminization efficacy.
DOI 10.1101/2025.02.13.638118