Secondary reversion to sexual monomorphism associated with tissue-specific loss of doublesex expression
J.-j. Gao, O. Barmina, A. Thompson, B. Y. Kim, A. Suvorov, K. Tanaka, H. Watabe, M. J. Toda, J.-M. Chen, T. K. Katoh, A. Kopp
The paper examines the loss of a male-specific sex comb in a Drosophilidae species, linking it to a secondary loss of doublesex (dsx) expression, and discusses implications for the evolution of sexual dimorphism.
bioRxiv · Apr 21, 2022Evolutionary Biology