Animal sex chromosomes typically carry the upstream sex-determining gene that triggers
testis or ovary development and, in some species, are regulated by global dosage …

Most animal species consist of two distinct sexes. At the morphological, physiological, and
behavioral levels the differences between males and females are numerous and dramatic …

Introduction The oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis is one of the most destructive
agricultural pests worldwide, with highly debated species delimitation, origin, and global …

Homing-based gene drives are recently proposed interventions promising the area-wide,
species-specific genetic control of harmful insect populations. Here we characterise a first …

Nature has devised many ways of producing males and females. Here, we report on a
previously undescribed mechanism for Lepidoptera that functions without a female-specific …

Animals have evolved various sex determination systems. Here, we describe a newly found
mechanism. A long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) transduces complementary sex determination …

Genetic control strategies such as the sterile insect technique have successfully fought
insect pests worldwide. The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

The genetics of the sex determination regulatory cascade in Drosophila melanogaster has a
fascinating history, interlinked with the foundation of the Genetics discipline itself. The …

Simple Summary The Insect Pest Control (IPC) Section and its associated laboratory (IPCL)
is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. Its …

Sex in honeybees, Apis mellifera, is genetically determined by heterozygous versus
homo/hemizygous genotypes involving numerous alleles at the single complementary sex …