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Nature Reviews Genetics 10, 818–819 (1 December 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrg2704
Sex determination: The means to discriminate
Abstract
Nature has a startling number of ways in which to establish differences between the sexes, and now a couple more can be added. In melons, an integrated model of sex determination — based on epigenetic repression mediated by a transposon — has been proposed to explain the development of male, female and hermaphrodite flowers, and in honeybees, it has been shown that sexual differentiation is a two-step process.
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