From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems.

Journal article

Sex determination is typically classified as either genotypic or environmental. However, this dichotomy obscures the developmental origin and evolutionary modification of determinants of sex, and therefore hinders an understanding of the processes that generates diversity in sex-determining systems. Recent research on reptiles and fish emphasizes that sex determination is a multifactorial regulatory process that is best understood as a threshold dichotomy rather than as the result of genetica...

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Authors: Uller, T; Helanterä, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Quarterly review of biology
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 163-180
• Publication date: 2011-09-01
• DOI: 10.1086/661118
• EISSN: 1539-7718
• ISSN: 0033-5770
• Language: English
• Keywords: Sex Differentiation; Sex Determination Processes; Polymorphism, Genetic; Animals; Environment; Genotype; Biological Evolution