Charlesworth Deborah
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Lab. King's Buildings, W. Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
Curr Biol. 2008 Jul 22;18(14):R610-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.004.
In several insects and fish, and probably some mammals, the gene controlling the male-female switch has changed during evolution. It now seems that this has also happened in honeybees, where the sex-determining gene has now been shown to be a duplicate of another Hymenopteran sex-determining gene.
在几种昆虫和鱼类中，可能还有一些哺乳动物中，控制雌雄转换的基因在进化过程中发生了变化。现在看来，蜜蜂中也出现了这种情况，在蜜蜂中，决定性别的基因现已被证明是另一种膜翅目昆虫性别决定基因的复制品。
