Uneven distribution of complementary sex determiner (csd) alleles in Apis mellifera population

Abstract The complementary sex determiner (csd) gene determines the sex of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Bees that are heterozygous at the csd locus develop into females; whereas hemizygous bees develop into males. The co-occurrence of two identical csd alleles in a single diploid genom...

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Main Authors: Joanna Zareba, Pawel Blazej, Agnieszka Laszkiewicz, Lukasz Sniezewski, Michal Majkowski, Sylwia Janik, Malgorzata Cebrat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02629-9