The bacteria Wolbachia drives some female butterflies in which it lives to take desperate measures in their hunt for new mates, reports Eleanor Lawrence.
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Jiggins,F.M., Hurst, G. D. D., Majerus, M. E. N. Sex-ratio-distorting Wolbachia causes sex-role reversal in its butterfly host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267, 69 2000.
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Lawrence, E. Sex-crazed butterfly swarms. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000120-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000120-6