ANTSR seems to be the ancient master sex determining gene in Hymenoptera (as suggested by Pan et al. 2024)! So rad that a lncRNA is doing this!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The vast majority of Hymenopterans determine sex by haplodiploidy, in which males and females develop from haploid unfertilized and diploid fertilized eggs, respectively. At the molecular level, the m...