Sex Determination in Honeybees: Two Separate Mechanisms Induce and Maintain the Female Pathway

Organisms have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to generate the two sexes. The honeybee (Apis mellifera) employs an interesting system in which sex is determined by heterozygosity at a single locus (the Sex Determination Locus) harbouring the complementary sex determiner (csd) gene. Bee...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Gempe, Tanja, Hasselmann, Martin, Schiøtt, Morten, Hause, Gerd, Otte, Marianne, Beye, Martin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
Materias:
Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000222

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19841734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000222

Ejemplares similares