title: Tackling the diversity of sex determination.
abstract: A workshop on 'The evolution of sex determination systems' was held at a remote place in the Swiss Alps from 17 to 20 June 2009. It brought together theoreticians and empiricists, the latter ranging from molecular geneticists to evolutionary ecologists, all trying to understand key aspects of sex determination. The topics discussed included the evolutionary origins of sex determination, the diversity of sex determination mechanisms in different taxa, and the transition from genotypic to environmental sex determination and vice versa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. claus.wedekind@unil.ch
authors.forename: Claus
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wedekind
authors.forename: Rike B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Stelkens
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D004777:Environment; D005838:Genotype; D012730:Sex Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D019849:Sex Determination Processes; D013045:Species Specificity
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