Abstract

Female heterogamety has been found in eight Australian species of Tephritidae belonging to Chrysotrypanea, Tephritis, and three new genera. Evidence suggests that female heterogamety evolved in response to selection through small potency changes in species of the Y/X or Y/XA types which lacked elaborate mechanisms for dosage compensation.

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