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Metabolic consequences of sex reversal in two lizard species: a test of the like-genotype and like-phenotype hypotheses.
The Journal of experimental biology - 1 Jul 2023
Wild Kristoffer H, Roe John H, Schwanz Lisa, Rodgers Essie, Dissanayake Duminda S B, Georges Arthur, Sarre Stephen D, Noble Daniel W A
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Vertebrate sex is typically determined genetically, but in many ectotherms sex can be determined by genes (genetic sex determination, GSD), temperature (temperature-dependent sex determination, TSD), or interactions between genes and temperature during development. TSD may involve GSD systems with either male or female heterogamety (XX/XY or ZZ/ZW) where temperature overrides chromosomal sex determination to...
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