No need to discriminate? Reproductive diploid males in a parasitoid with complementary sex determination.

Diploid males in hymenopterans are generally either inviable or sterile, thus imposing a severe genetic load on populations. In species with the widespread single locus complementary sex determination (sl-CSD), sex depends on the genotype at one single locus with multiple alleles. Haploid (hemizygou...

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Main Authors: Jan Elias, Dominique Mazzi, Silvia Dorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19551142/?tool=EBI