Among butterflies afflicted by bacteria that wipe out most of the guys, females buck a basic trend and become the gender that gathers in frantic swarms to mate, report British researchers.
In most species, it’s the males that crowd into clusters, or leks, to show off for choosy mates, explains Francis M. Jiggins of the University of Cambridge in England.
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