An ancestral link between genetic and environmental sex determination

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have found a highly significant connection between the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic and environmental sex determination. The scientists report the identification of a gene responsible for the production of males during environmental sex determination in the crustacean Daphnia.

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