Bacteria that turns flies into sex-crazed super-breeders
The whitefly is a major agrarian pest , and over the last six year Southwest of America has seen the near total contagion of the species by a symbiotic bacteria , whichmakes them superintendent - breeder . The bacterium Rickettsia bellii was to begin with spotted in just a few specimens in 2000 , but by 2006 was in 97 % of the bugs . How did it diffuse so wide , so tight ?...