When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives—and ability to reproduce—change dramatically.

For more than a year now, a group of environmental organizations have been dropping biodegradable containers of mosquitoes ...

But Wolbachia could move into other species, too: The WolBloc team has had some early success in preventing malaria transmission by mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia.

Wolbachia in the lab Russell focuses on Wolbachia because it and its fruit fly hosts are relatively easy to keep alive and reproduce in the lab. Oftentimes when scientists study bacteria, their ...

The world's weirdest bacteria might just be this one. Image an organism causing sex changes to whoever it infects. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male ...

For more information about this research, see "Wolbachia infection facilitates adaptive increase in male egg size in response to environmental changes," Eloïse Leroy, Siyi Gao, Maya Gonzalez ...

One kind, known as Wolbachia, is already found in Maui mosquitoes and it alters their reproductive cells. When two insects both have the same strain of Wolbachia, they can successfully reproduce.

The Wolbachia bacterium is ubiquitous in nature: It can be found in as many as 60 percent of insect species, from butterflies and wasps, to bees, dragonflies, and some species of mosquito.

Project Wolbachia now covers about 352,000 households, which is about 25 per cent of all households in Singapore, said Dr Ng. This is more than double the 160,000 households covered in the middle ...

These wasps may be inhabited by a bacteria, Wolbachia, which turns nearly all wasps in a population female. It turns out they force male eggs to become female thanks to sex — determining genes ...