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Temperature-dependent turnovers in sex-determination mechanisms: a quantitative model.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2011
Grossen Christine, Neuenschwander Samuel, Perrin Nicolas
Abstract excerpt
Sex determination is often seen as a dichotomous process: individual sex is assumed to be determined either by genetic (genotypic sex determination, GSD) or by environmental factors (environmental sex determination, ESD), most often temperature (temperature sex determination, TSD). We endorse an alternative view, which sees GSD and TSD as the ends of a continuum. Both effects interact a priori, because...
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