Why girls want to be boys.
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چکیده
The mechanisms by which sex is genetically determined are bewilderingly diverse and appear to change rapidly during evolution.(1) What makes the sex-determining process so prone to perturbations? Two recent articles(2,3) explore theoretically the role of genetic conflict in sex determination evolution. Both studies use the idea that selection on sex-determining genes may act differently in parents and in offspring and they suggest that the resulting conflict can drive changes in sex-determining mechanisms.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
دوره 23 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001