The Sex Determination Gene Shows No Founder Effect in the Giant Honey Bee, Apis dorsata
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The Sex Determination Gene Shows No Founder Effect in the Giant Honey Bee, Apis dorsata
BACKGROUND All honey bee species (Apis spp) share the same sex determination mechanism using the complementary sex determination (csd) gene. Only individuals heterogeneous at the csd allele develop into females, and the homozygous develop into diploid males, which do not survive. The honeybees are therefore under selection pressure to generate new csd alleles. Previous studies have shown that t...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034436