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Searching for sex-reversals to explain population demography and the evolution of sex chromosomes.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2010
Wedekind Claus
Abstract excerpt
Sex determination can be purely genetic (as in mammals and birds), purely environmental (as in many reptiles), or genetic but reversible by environmental factors during a sensitive period in life, as in many fish and amphibians (Wallace et al. 1999; Baroiller et al. 2009a; Stelkens & Wedekind 2010). Such environmental sex reversal (ESR) can be induced, for example, by temperature changes or by exposure to...
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