The mating experiment (IMAGE)

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

The mating experiment

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Mating experiments were conducted with insects infected with Rickettsia and those cured of Rickettsia infection by antibiotic treatment. Among the four possible mating combinations, only the pairing of uninfected females and infected males resulted in 0% egg hatch rate.

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National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)

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