Experimental Support for Multiple Locus Complementary Sex Determination in the 3 Parasitoid Cotesia vestalis 4 5
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Experimental support for multiple-locus complementary sex determination in the parasitoid Cotesia vestalis.
Despite its fundamental role in development, sex determination is highly diverse among animals. Approximately 20% of all animals are haplodiploid, with haploid males and diploid females. Haplodiploid species exhibit diverse but poorly understood mechanisms of sex determination. Some hymenopteran insect species exhibit single-locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), where heterozygosity a...
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