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Evidence of oligogenic sex determination in the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata.
Genetica - 1 Jun 2018
Yusa Yoichi, Kumagai Natsumi
Abstract excerpt
A small number of genes may interact to determine sex, but few such examples have been demonstrated in animals, especially through comprehensive mating experiments. The highly invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata is gonochoristic and shows a large variation in brood sex ratio, and the involvement of multiple genes has been suggested for this phenomenon. We conducted mating experiments to determine whether...
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