Phenotypic Determination of Epithelial Appendages: Genes, Developmental Pathways, and Evolution

Function and evolution of sex determinat

Function and evolution of sex determination mechanisms, genes and pathways in insects

✍ Tanja Gempe; Martin Beye 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 410 KB

Animals have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to determine the two sexes. Studies of sex determination genes – their history and function – in non-model insects and __Drosophila__ have allowed us to begin to understand the generation of sex determination diversity. One common theme from