Nagaraju J, Gopinath G, Sharma V, Shukla J N
Centre of Excellence for Genetics and Genomics of Silkmoths, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India.
Sex Dev. 2014;8(1-3):104-12. doi: 10.1159/000357483. Epub 2014 Jan 21.
Sex determination is a developmental pathway that fixes the sexual fate (male or female) of an individual at early stages of embryonic development. This pathway is ideally suited for evolutionary studies given the astoundingly diverse mechanisms found in the animal kingdom. In particular, insects use multiple different cues to specify the sexual fate of an individual. In this review, we focus on genes and genetic interactions involved in the sex determination of insect species belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Unique features of the lepidopteran sex determination system are discussed.
性别决定是一种发育途径，它在胚胎发育的早期阶段确定个体的性别命运（雄性或雌性）。鉴于在动物王国中发现的惊人多样的机制，这条途径非常适合进行进化研究。特别是，昆虫使用多种不同的线索来确定个体的性别命运。在这篇综述中，我们重点关注参与鳞翅目昆虫性别决定的基因和遗传相互作用。我们还讨论了鳞翅目性别决定系统的独特特征。
