Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems
Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Sex determined by climate
In vertebrates, sex can be determined either genetically or by the temperature experienced by the embryo, but the evolutionary causes of this variation remain poorly understood. Pen
et al
. show that a live-bearing lizard at different climatic extremes of its range uses different sex-determining mechanisms — tempe...
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Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_876239488
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/nature09512
