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Why girls want to be boys.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Jun 2001

Beukeboom L W, de Jong T J, Pen I

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The mechanisms by which sex is genetically determined are bewilderingly diverse and appear to change rapidly during evolution.(1) What makes the sex-determining process so prone to perturbations? Two recent articles(2,3) explore theoretically the role of genetic conflict in sex determination evolution. Both studies use the idea that selection on sex-determining genes may act differently in parents and in...

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PMID: 11385627
DOI: 10.1002/bies.1067

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