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Genetic analysis of abnormal male sexual development in Aedes aegypti and Ae. mascarensis backcross progeny.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Hilburn L R, Rai K S
Abstract excerpt
When male hybrids of Aedes aegypti females and A. mascarensis males were backcrossed to A. aegypti females, 32.8 percent of the male progeny exhibited abnormal sexual development, including failure of the terminalia to rotate, a split sternite of the eighth abdominal segment with partially duplicated telomeres, or feminization that gives rise to sterile intersexes. Observations made on three morphological marker...
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