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No need to discriminate? Reproductive diploid males in a parasitoid with complementary sex determination.
PloS one - 24 Jun 2009
Elias Jan, Mazzi Dominique, Dorn Silvia
Abstract excerpt
Diploid males in hymenopterans are generally either inviable or sterile, thus imposing a severe genetic load on populations. In species with the widespread single locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), sex depends on the genotype at one single locus with multiple alleles. Haploid (hemizygous) individuals are always males. Diploid individuals develop into females when heterozygous and into males when...
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