In spite of the long‐term interest in the process of balancing selection, its frequency in
genomes and evolutionary significance remain unclear due to challenges related to its …

Animals have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to determine the two sexes.
Studies of sex determination genes–their history and function–in non‐model insects and …

The evolution of eusociality is one of the major transitions in evolution, but the underlying
genomic changes are unknown. We compared the genomes of 10 bee species that vary in …

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 …

Recent studies in a representative selection of holometabolous insects suggest that, despite
diversity at the instructive level, the signal-relaying part of the sex-determining pathway is …

Organisms have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to generate the two sexes.
The honeybee (Apis mellifera) employs an interesting system in which sex is determined by …

Major changes in genetic variation are generally considered deleterious to populations. The
massive biodiversity of insects distinguishes them from other animal groups. Insect deviant …

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

The ability to identify genetic markers in nonmodel systems has allowed geneticists to
construct linkage maps for a diversity of species, and the sex-determining locus is often …

Sex determination in insects is characterized by a gene cascade that is conserved at the
bottom but contains diverse primary signals at the top. The bottom master switch gene …