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Sterile males in a parasitoid wasp with complementary sex determination: from fitness costs to population extinction

BACKGROUND: Single-locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), which occurs in some insects of the order Hymenoptera, imposes a heavy genetic load that can drive small populations to extinction. The core process in these species is the development of individuals homozygous at the sex-determining...

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Autores principales: Fauvergue, Xavier, Chuine, Anna, Vayssade, Chloé, Auguste, Alexandra, Desouhant, Emmanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25962498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-014-0032-6