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Unusually high recombination rate detected in the sex locus region of the honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Genetics - 1 Dec 1999
Beye M, Hunt G J, Page R E, Fondrk M K, Grohmann L, Moritz R F
Abstract excerpt
Sex determination in Hymenoptera is controlled by haplo-diploidy in which unfertilized eggs develop into fertile haploid males. A single sex determination locus with several complementary alleles was proposed for Hymenoptera [so-called complementary sex determination (CSD)]. Heterozygotes at the sex determination locus are normal, fertile females, whereas diploid zygotes that are homozygous develop into sterile...
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