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Heterozygosity at a conserved candidate sex determination locus is associated with female development in the clonal raider ant (
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- Rare sex punctuates strict asexual reproduction in the clonal raider ant,bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Deep evolutionary conservation of a sex-determining locus without sequence homology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Genetic mapping in the red mason bee implicates ANTSR as an ancient sex-determining locus in bees and ants.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- Transcriptional interference gates monogenic odorant receptor expression in ants.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Transcriptional Interference Gates Monogenic Odorant Receptor Expression in Ants.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Gain and Loss of Heterozygosity in the Genome of the Asexual Nematode Halicephalobus mephisto.Journal of molecular evolution · 2025Article
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Sex determination is a developmental switch that triggers sex-specific developmental programs. This switch is 'flipped' by the expression of genes that promote male- or female-specific development. Many lineages have evolved sex chromosomes that act as primary signals for sex determination. However, haplodiploidy (males are haploid and females are diploid), which occurs in ca. 12% of animal species, is incompatible with sex chromosomes. Haplodiploid taxa must, therefore, rely on other strategies for sex determination. One mechanism, 'complementary sex determination' (CSD), uses heterozygosity as a proxy for diploidy. In CSD, heterozygosity at a sex determination locus triggers female development, while hemizygosity or homozygosity permits male development. CSD loci have been mapped in honeybees and two ant species, but we know little about their evolutionary history. Here, we investigate sex determination in the clonal raider ant,
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