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SUBMITTER: Schmieder S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3621418 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schmieder Sandra S Colinet Dominique D Poirié Marylène M
Nature communications 20120612
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 honeybee, where the complementary sex-determiner gene was reported to have arisen from duplication of the feminizer gene. Strikingly, the complementary sex-determiner gene was also proposed to be unique t ...[more]