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From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems.
The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Sept 2011
Uller Tobias, Helanterä Heikki
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Sex determination is typically classified as either genotypic or environmental. However, this dichotomy obscures the developmental origin and evolutionary modification of determinants of sex, and therefore hinders an understanding of the processes that generates diversity in sex-determining systems. Recent research on reptiles and fish emphasizes that sex determination is a multifactorial regulatory process that...
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