A DBHS family member regulates male determination in the filariasis vector Armigeres subalbatus

Abstract The initial signals governing sex determination vary widely among insects. Here we show that Armigeres subalbatus M factor (AsuMf), a male-specific duplication of an autosomal gene of the Drosophila behaviour/human splicing (DBHS) gene family, is the potential primary signal for sex determi...

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Main Authors: Peiwen Liu, Wenqiang Yang, Ling Kong, Siyu Zhao, Zhensheng Xie, Yijie Zhao, Yang Wu, Yijia Guo, Yugu Xie, Tong Liu, Binbin Jin, Jinbao Gu, Zhijian Jake Tu, Anthony A. James, Xiao-Guang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37983-y