Wolbachia bacteria make these males biologically incompatible with uninfected females. (sciencenews.org)
Infection has reproductive consequences: Matings between infected males (who can't pass the infection along in their sperm) and uninfected females produce almost no offspring. (sciencemag.org)
In their latest study, Potash and colleagues describe the efficient and reproducible transmission of chimeric HIV from infected male mice to uninfected females via mating, providing the first report of HIV transmission by coitus in an animal model. (sciencedaily.com)