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Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination: The Interplay of Steroid Hormones and Temperature
1 Feb 1996
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Sex determination is the product of coordinated gene expression. Mutational analyses have yielded great progress in our understanding of mammalian sex determination, and insight into the evolution of this sex chromosome system would be valuable. Mammals arose from turtle-like reptiles, and in many turtles the incubation temperature of the egg determines the sex of the offspring, a process known as...
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