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The ways in which bacteria can manipulate reproduction of their invertebrate hosts for their own benefit is increasingly attracting attention among scientists. Written by leading experts, this text assembles background information on the topic in a comprehensive way, as well as presenting the most recent advances in the field.

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Three of the six chapters of this book are written by the editors; they concern the evolution of heritable endosymbionts, insect cytoplasmic incompatibility (in Drosophila, Tribolium, Nasonia, and mosquitoes), and possible relationships between symbionts and pest control. . . . Richard Stouthamer has contributed a well-plotted and informative chapter, Wolbachia-induced parthenogenesis. . . . The complementary chapter by Hurst et al. covers male-killing and sex-ratio distorters (i.e., the prevention of Y or 'null' or Z chromosomes from participating in embryonated eggs), and that by Rigaud reviews pertinent situations in isopods and amphipods, among other crustaceans. . . . The contents of the chapters by Rigaud, Stouthamer, and Hurst et al. are not easily located in recent, accessible literature. They are new and skillful contributions for most of us. --The Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

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