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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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009
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