Aphids saved from gruesome death by virus-infected bacteria

Friday, August 21, 2009 - 08:00 in Health & Medicine

The term 'beneficial virus' sounds like an oxymoron. But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new research...

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