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SUBMITTER: Ma WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3614920 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Wen-Juan WJ Kuijper Bram B de Boer Jetske G JG van de Zande Louis L Beukeboom Leo W LW Wertheim Bregje B Pannebakker Bart A BA
PloS one 20130402 4
An attractive way to improve our understanding of sex determination evolution is to study the underlying mechanisms in closely related species and in a phylogenetic perspective. Hymenopterans are well suited owing to the diverse sex determination mechanisms, including different types of Complementary Sex Determination (CSD) and maternal control sex determination. We investigated different types of CSD in four species within the braconid wasp genus Asobara that exhibit diverse life-history traits ...[more]