Tim Harvey-Samuel, Xuejiao Xu, Michelle A E Anderson, Leonela Z Carabajal Paladino, Deepak Purusothaman, Victoria C Norman, Christine M Reitmayer, Minsheng You, Luke Alphey
The Lepidoptera are an insect order of cultural, economic, and environmental importance, representing ∼10% of all described living species. Yet, for all but one of these species (silkmoth, Bombyx mori ), the molecular genetics of how sexual fate is determined remains unknown. We investigated this in the diamondback moth ( Plutella xylostella ), a globally important, highly invasive, and economically damaging pest of cruciferous crops. Our previous work uncovered a regulator of male sex determination in P...
November 16, 2022: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America