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.
Charlesworth
Deborah
D
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
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