female heterogamety

[¦fē‚māl ¦hed·ə·rō·gə′mēd·ē]

(genetics)

The production by females of two kinds of gametes differing in sex chromosome complement, as in birds and Lepidoptera.

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In nature, there are different types of conserved patterns of sex-determining mechanisms which range from male heterogamety (XY) found in the majority of mammals and female heterogamety (ZW) found in most birds to environmental sex determination (ESD) expressed most commonly as temperature sex determination (TSD) found in reptiles and some fish species [9].

The number of fish species that present male heterogamety compared to female heterogamety is higher [12].

Expression Characterization of Six Genes Possibly Involved in Gonad Development for Stellate Sturgeon Individuals (Acipenser stellatus, Pallas 1771)

Berlin, "Single locus sex determination and female heterogamety in the basket willow (Salix viminalis L.)," Heredity, vol.

Detecting the Candidate Gender Determinants by Bioinformatic Prediction of miRNAs and Their Targets from Transcriptome Sequences of the Male and Female Flowers in Salix suchowensis

niloticus is proposed to display male heterogamety, in contrast to female heterogamety in O.

A syntenic region conserved from fish to mammalian X chromosome

Gender determination by heterogamety, XY (male heterogamety) or ZW (female heterogamety), is a well-known system involving 2 genetic factors (Yusa 2007).

Determination of gender in the pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera

Studies of mating signals in birds will be instructive as to whether this discrepancy is specific to Lepidoptera or a consequence of female heterogamety.

Genetics of sexual isolation and courtship dysfunction in make hyrids of Drosophila pseudoobscura and Drosophila persimilis

Among these, Aves and Lepidoptera have both female heterogamety and hybrid loss of fitness primarily in the females.

Haldane's rule is significant

We compared taxa with female heterogamety to their nearest closest relatives with male heterogamety, and asked in which of those sister taxa is female hybrid inviability more common.