Tracing back the nascence of a new sex-determination pathway to the ancestor of bees and ants

In several Hymenoptera, sexual fate is determined by the allelic composition at the complementary sex-determiner locus, a sex-determination mechanism that can strongly affect population dynamics. To date, the molecular identification of complementary sex determiner has only been achieved in the hone...

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Main Authors: Schmieder, Sandra, Colinet, Dominique, Poirié, Marylène
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621418/