Bacteria can enhance host insect’s fertility with implications for disease control

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Wolbachia bacteria boosts fertility in insects, aiding efforts to increase disease-free mosquito populations.

New research reveals how the bacteria strain Wolbachia pipientis enhances the fertility of the insects it infects, an insight that could help scientists increase the populations of mosquitoes that do not carry human disease.

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