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Published online 26 February 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.624
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Killer of male moths is identified
Researchers suspect virus selectively targets males.
Researchers seem to have found a novel virus that is wiping out the male larvae of a Japanese moth, while leaving the females unscathed.
The new fiend could become the first viral member of an elite club of misandrist nasties that live within the cells of invertebrate hosts.
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