Characterization of sex-specific variants of doublesex and feminizer genes in stingless bee species
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Buchholz, Josephine
Nunes, Francis Morais Franco
Cristino, Alexandre Santos
Simoes, Zila Luz Paulino
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Sex determination is one of the major developmental events in higher metazoans, where complex molecular mechanisms define two physiologically and behaviorally distinct organisms still genetically compatible. In honey bees, the sex determination cascade is initiated by the allelic composition of complementary sex determiner (csd) gene: males develop from hemi or homozygous embryos, whereas females develop from heterozygous embryos. In females, different alleles of csd lead to the formation of female-specific variants of feminizer (fem) and doublesex (dsx). In males, male-specific variants of fem and dsx are formed by default. In this paper, we investigated the genes of sex determination in the stingless bees Melipona quadrifasciata, Scaptotrigona postica, and Frieseomelitta varia. Our results revealed that the architecture of fem and dsx transcripts is highly conserved among the three stingless bee species, and also with honey bees.
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Apidologie
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51
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4
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Zoology
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Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Entomology
stingless bees
sex determination
Melipona quadrifasciata
Scaptotrigona postica
Frieseomelitta varia
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de Paula Freitas, FC; Buchholz, J; Nunes, FMF; Cristino, AS; Simoes, ZLP, Characterization of sex-specific variants of doublesex and feminizer genes in stingless bee species, Apidologie, 2020, 51 (4), pp. 469-480