Female silkworms have the sex factor

František Marec ()
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František Marec: František Marec is at the Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre ASCR, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic.

Nature, 2014, vol. 509, issue 7502, 570-571

Abstract: Sex determination in the silkworm Bombyx mori has been found to depend on the presence or absence of a small RNA. This is thought to be the first example of a molecule other than a protein mediating this process. See Letter p.633

Date: 2014
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