| maternally transmitted non-bacterial male killer in drosophila biauraria. | a maternally inherited, all-female trait is widely found among arthropods, which is caused by bacterial endosymbionts such as wolbachia, rickettsia, spiroplasma and cardinium we discovered a single female of drosophila biauraria, 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 derived from the same population. th ... | 2017 | 29021316 |