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SUBMITTER: Kageyama D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5665774 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kageyama Daisuke D Yoshimura Kanamu K Sugimoto Takafumi N TN Katoh Takehiro K TK Watada Masayoshi M
Biology letters 20171001 10
A maternally inherited, all-female trait is widely found among arthropods, which is caused by bacterial endosymbionts such as <i>Wolbachia</i>, <i>Rickettsia</i>, <i>Spiroplasma</i> and <i>Cardinium</i> We discovered a single female of <i>Drosophila biauraria,</i> collected from Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan, that produced all-female offspring. This all-female trait was maternally inherited in the iso-female line (SP12F) by backcrossing with males of a normal line (SP11-20) with a 1 : 1 sex ratio d ...[more]