Sex determination in honeybees: two separate mechanisms induce and maintain the female pathway.

Organisms have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to generate the two sexes. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) employs an interesting system in which sex is determined by heterozygosity at a single locus (the Sex Determination Locus) harbouring the complementary sex determiner (csd) gene. Bee...

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Auteurs principaux: Tanja Gempe, Martin Hasselmann, Morten Schiøtt, Gerd Hause, Marianne Otte, Martin Beye
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/77bd738c4e774ed49c29eca655e8d96b
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