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Recognition of polymorphic Csd proteins determines sex in the honeybee.
Science advances - 6 Oct 2023
Otte Marianne, Netschitailo Oksana, Weidtkamp-Peters Stefanie, Seidel Claus A M, Beye Martin
Abstract excerpt
Sex in honeybees, Apis mellifera, is genetically determined by heterozygous versus homo/hemizygous genotypes involving numerous alleles at the single complementary sex determination locus. The molecular mechanism of sex determination is however unknown because there are more than 4950 known possible allele combinations, but only two sexes in the species. We show how protein variants expressed from complementary...
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