44% reduction in no. of eggs when male is axenic

  • Axenic males produce only 66% of eggs when mated with CV females compared to CV males crossed with CV females.
  • Also, axenic males mated with axenic females produce only 62% compared to CV couples. 

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75156-9#:~:text=We%20further%20observed%20that%20the,switch%20of%20the%20female's%20transcriptome.

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