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Evolutionary genetics: changed sex determination in honeybees.

Current biology : CB - 22 Jul 2008

Charlesworth Deborah

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In several insects and fish, and probably some mammals, the gene controlling the male-female switch has changed during evolution. It now seems that this has also happened in honeybees, where the sex-determining gene has now been shown to be a duplicate of another Hymenopteran sex-determining gene.

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PMID: 18644338
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.004

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