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Zygosity-based sex determination in a butterfly drives hypervariability of Masculinizer.
Science advances - 3 May 2024
Van't Hof Arjen E, Whiteford Ivy, Yung Carl J, Yoshido Atsuo, Zrzavá Magda, de Jong Maaike A, Tan Kian-Long, Zhu Dantong, Monteiro Antónia, Brakefield Paul M, Marec František, Saccheri Ilik J
Abstract excerpt
Nature has devised many ways of producing males and females. Here, we report on a previously undescribed mechanism for Lepidoptera that functions without a female-specific gene. The number of alleles or allele heterozygosity in a single Z-linked gene (BaMasc) is the primary sex-determining switch in Bicyclus anynana butterflies. Embryos carrying a single BaMasc allele develop into WZ (or Z0) females, those...
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