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Heterogametic sex

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Non-human animals often have different sex arrangements than humans. In birds, the male sex is the homogametic sex, having two Z chromosomes, while the female sex is the heterogametic sex, with one Z and one W chromosome. In
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Hardy, Ian C. W.; Boulton, Rebecca A. (1 January 2019). "Sex Allocation, Sex Ratios and Reproduction☆".
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between the sex chromosomes, and in some species, this extends to the autosomes, a phenomenon called
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flies are achiasmic, lacking recombination on all chromosomes, although females show recombination.
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Perspectives on genetics: anecdotal, historical, and critical commentaries, 1987–1998
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Drosophila sex determination system. In Drosophila, males are the heterogametic sex.
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Heterogametic sex determination systems typically have an approximately equal
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Haines, Brett A; Barradale, Francesca; Dumont, Beth L (20 August 2021).
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Sex of a species in which the sex chromosomes are not the same
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G-banding

gametes
sex chromosomes
male sex
X
Y
female sex
XY sex-determination system
platypuses
Drosophila
ZW sex-determination system
sex ratio
sex ratio distortion
meiotic drive
meiotic recombination
achiasmy
Drosophila melanogaster
Haldane's rule
hybrid speciation
Haldane-Huxley rule
ISBN
978-0-299-16604-5
doi
10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.90122-5
ISBN
9780128132524
"Patterns and mechanisms of sex ratio distortion in the Collaborative Cross mouse mapping population"
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