Scientists in Arizona and Europe have found out how the molecular switch for sex gradually and adaptively evolved in the honeybee over the last 200 years. The first genetic mechanism for sex determination was proposed in the mid-1800s by a Silesian monk named Johann Dzierson, according to the study's co-author and Arizona State University Provost Robert E. Page Jr. Dzierson was trying to understand how males and females were produced in honey bee colonies. He knew ...
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