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A flowchart describing possible changes in sex-determining mechanism (SDM) among amniotes. Novel sex-determining (SD) gene(s) can override temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) or pre-existing genotypic sex determination (GSD). Once GSD evolves, genome complexity increases as illustrated here in the grey shaded box. This box illustrates genome characteristics that arise subsequent to the evolution of GSD by this model.
