Sex determination: balancing selection in the honey bee.
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.
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Deborah
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Charlesworth
D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics*; D004171:Diploidy; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006238:Haploidy; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D019849:Sex Determination Processes