Sex determination: Balancing selection in the honey bee

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作者
Charlesworth, D [1 ]
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[1] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Cell Anim & Populat Biol, Ashworth Lab, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Midlothian, Scotland
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10.1016/j.cub.2004.07.014
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Sequences of alleles of the honey bee's primary sex-determining gene have extremely high diversity, with many amino acid variants, suggesting that different alleles of this gene have been maintained in populations for very long evolutionary times.
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页码:R568 / R569
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