The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Selectively Kills Male Hosts by Targeting the Masculinizing Gene

• Takahiro Fukui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Munetaka Kawamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keisuke Shoji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Kiuchi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takahiro Fukui, Munetaka Kawamoto, Keisuke Shoji, Takashi Kiuchi

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sumio Sugano,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toru Shimada,

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yutaka Suzuki,

  Affiliation Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

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• Susumu Katsuma

  * E-mail: katsuma@ss.ab.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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