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Evidence for convergent nucleotide evolution and high allelic turnover rates at the complementary sex determiner gene of Western and Asian honeybees.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Apr 2008
Hasselmann Martin, Vekemans Xavier, Pflugfelder Jochen, Koeniger Nikolaus, Koeniger Gudrun, Tingek Salim, Beye Martin
Abstract excerpt
Our understanding of the impact of recombination, mutation, genetic drift, and selection on the evolution of a single gene is still limited. Here we investigate the impact of all these evolutionary forces at the complementary sex determiner (csd) gene that evolves under a balancing mode of selection. Females are heterozygous at the csd gene and males are hemizygous; diploid males are lethal and occur when csd is...
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