2024
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.08.622740
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Maternal inheritance of primary sex ratios in the dark-winged fungus gnatLycoriella ingenua

Maria Shlyakonova,
Katy M. Monteith,
Laura Ross
et al.

Abstract: Sex determination mechanisms in insects are extraordinarily diverse, although most species have zygotic genotypic sex determination where sex is established by sex chromosomes upon fertilisation. Dark-winged fungus gnats (Diptera: Sciaridae) are a large and speciose family of flies where sex determination is a result of an unusual interplay of zygotic, maternal, and environmental factors. This causes some species to produce clutches of offspring that deviate considerably from the standard 1:1 Fisherian sex rat… Show more

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