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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Leo W Beukeboom; Nicolas Perrin |
ISBN: | 9780198753674 0198753675 9780199657148 0199657149 |
OCLC Number: | 919487459 |
Description: | xvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | What are sexes, and why are there sexes? -- The diversity of sexual cycles -- Molecular mechanisms of sex determination -- The quantitative genetics of sex determination -- The evolution of sex chromosomes -- Evolutionary correlates of sex-determination systems -- Transitions among sex-determination systems. |
Responsibility: | Leo Beukeboom, Nicolas Perrin. |
Abstract:
This book provides a synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical research on the evolution of sex determination mechanisms, the first for 30 years.
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The set-up of the book is ideal as a study book with clear definitions of terminology and concepts, a glossary and taxonomic, author and subject indices that enable the reader to quickly find their way through the book. ... Beukeboom and Perrin have done a wonderful job in providing a thorough account of the field in a very accessible book. * Jetske G. de Boer, BioEssays * With this book, Beukeboom and Perrin succeed in providing for researchers both a detailed review of each reader's own discipline as well as a concise window into other disciplines. * Lisa E. Schwanz, The Quarterly Review of Biology * Read more...
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