Disentangling the influence of environmental conditions on sex determination in haplodiploid organisms.

ABSTRACT: Sex determination is essential for the life history of sexually reproducing organisms. Understanding the mechanism behind sex determination decisions, however, is not trivial, as processes such as random meiosis can shape the sex of the offspring besides environmental conditions. Haplodiploid organisms are relatively unconstrained from these internal influences: Males develop from unfertilized and females from fertilized eggs. Females can thus base sex allocation on their individual parental expenditure and account for the prevalent environmental conditions they live in. We aim to disentangle the influence of environmental conditions on sex determination and resource allocation decisions of haplodiploid organisms (population sex ratio, individual sex allocation probability, individual reso

SUBMITTER: Wittmann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673240 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature