Skinner S W
Genetics. 1985 Apr;109(4):745-59. doi: 10.1093/genetics/109.4.745.
An extrachromosomal factor, termed son-killer (sk), affects the sex ratio in a parasitoid wasp, Nasonia (=Mormoniella) vitripennis. The factor is maternally transmitted and alters the secondary sex ratio of an infected female through mortality of approximately 80% of the male embryos. No effect on the primary (zygotic) sex ratio is observed. Ninety-five percent of the daughters of an infected female inherit son-killer. The factor can also be transmitted contagiously when the progeny of infected and uninfected females develop simultaneously on a single host. In newly infected strains, the sex ratio effects are equivalent to those in the original.
一种称为杀雄因子(sk)的染色体外因子影响寄生蜂丽蝇蛹集金小蜂(= 玻璃蝇蛹金小蜂)的性别比例。该因子通过母体传播,导致受感染雌性所产雄性胚胎约80%死亡,从而改变其二代性别比例。未观察到对一代(合子)性别比例有影响。受感染雌性的95%的女儿继承杀雄因子。当受感染和未受感染雌性的后代在同一宿主上同时发育时,该因子也可通过接触传播。在新感染的品系中,性别比例效应与原始品系相同。