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A new component of the Nasonia sex determining cascade is maternally silenced and regulates transformer expression.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Verhulst Eveline C, Lynch Jeremy A, Bopp Daniel, Beukeboom Leo W, van de Zande Louis
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Although sex determination is a universal process in sexually reproducing organisms, sex determination pathways are among the most highly variable genetic systems found in nature. Nevertheless, general principles can be identified among the diversity, like the central role of transformer (tra) in insects. When a functional TRA protein is produced in early embryogenesis, the female sex determining route is...
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