2021-05-11 Press Release

A collaborative research group, including Dr. Ryosuke Iritani (Research Scientist, iTHEMS), has solved the mystery of wasps that produce only a few percent of males.

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Reference

  1. Jun Abe, Ryosuke Iritani, Koji Tsuchida, Yoshitaka Kamimura, and Stuart A. West, A solution to a sex ratio puzzle in Melittobia wasps, ,, PNAS 118 (20) e2024656118 (2021), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2024656118

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