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Sex ratio distorters of insects and their action mechanism.
Author of the article:DONG Jun-Feng,WANG Chen-Zhu,QIN Jun-De
Author's Workplace:(State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents,Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing100080, China).
Key Words:sex ratio distorters; male killer; feminization; paternal sex ratio; thelytoky; sex chromosome meiotic drive gene
Abstract:Sex ratio distorters (SRD) that alter sex determination and the sex ratio of their hosts have been recorded from a diverse range of insect species.The SRD can be considered to be selfish genetic elements because they manipulate their host reproduction to
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