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Population-level consequences of complementary sex determination in a solitary parasitoid.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 May 2015
de Boer Jetske G, Groenen Martien A M, Pannebakker Bart A, Beukeboom Leo W, Kraus Robert H S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Sex determination mechanisms are known to be evolutionarily labile but the factors driving transitions in sex determination mechanisms are poorly understood. All insects of the Hymenoptera are haplodiploid, with males normally developing from unfertilized haploid eggs. Under complementary sex determination (CSD), diploid males can be produced from fertilized eggs that are homozygous at the sex locus....
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