Genetic mechanism, reused, makes sexes and same-sex individuals different
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 08:31
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Indiana University biologists Teiya Kijimoto, Justen Andrews and Armin Moczek say it's time to chalk another one up for doublesex, the master regulatory gene at the terminus of the sex determination pathway that imposes female and male sexual development in fruit flies, honey bees, silk moths and wasps.