This team has been working hard at this for a number of years. This
seems like a clear outcome of all their work. Like the sex
determination gene (Csd), the thelytoky gene appears to be a single
gene based outcome. The title pretty much says it all.
Yagound, B., Dogantzis, K., Zayed, A., Lim, J., Broekhuyse, P.,
Remnant, E., Beekman, M., Allsopp, M., Aamidor, S., Dim, O., Buchmann,
G., Oldroyd, B. (2020). A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous
Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis
mellifera capensis. Current Biology, 30(12), 2248-2259.e6.
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