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Bivalves exhibit an astonishing diversity of sexual systems, with genetic and environmental determinants of sex, and possibly the only example of mitochondrial genes influencing sex determination pathways in animals.
Charlotte Capt +5 more
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The ways scientists think the difference of the sexes evolve, as Laqueur showed it, in the 17th-18th centuries, which lead to a complete re-evaluation of the figures of the hermaphrodite and the homosexual in the 19th century.
Muriel Salle
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Targeted Mutagenesis of the Female-Suppressor SyGI Gene in Tetraploid Kiwifruit by CRISPR/CAS9
Kiwifruit belong to the genus Actinidia with 54 species apparently all functionally dioecious. The sex-determinants of the type XX/XY, with male heterogametic, operate independently of the ploidy level.
Gloria De Mori +5 more
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Masculin/Féminin chez George Sand
In the nineteenth century, the distinction between the masculine and the feminine is clearly displayed in clothing and the distribution of tasks, and George Sand evokes this with humor in Histoire de ma vie.
Béatrice Didier
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The effects of fishing on the demography and population ecology of sex-changing fishes are largely unknown, despite the fact that their fisheries provide important economic and nutritional resources in coastal communities throughout the tropics ...
Carolina Chong-Montenegro +2 more
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Gonad development and reproduction in the monoecious speciesChlorophthalmus agassizi (Actinopterygii: Aulopiformes: Chlorophthalmidae) from the Sardinian waters (central-western Mediterranean) [PDF]
Background. The shortnose greeneye, Chlorophthalmus agassizi Bonaparte, 1840, is a species with a circumglobal distribution and is among the most abundant commercial fishes in some Mediterranean areas.
S. Cabiddu +3 more
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The Diversity and Dynamics of Sex Determination in Dioecious Plants
The diversity of inflorescences among flowering plants is captivating. Such charm is not only due to the variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and flowers displayed, but also to the range of reproductive systems. For instance, hermaphrodites occur abundantly
Ana Paula Leite Montalvão +3 more
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La monstrueuse perfection : l’illustration poétique de XXY
Alex, the main protagonist of XXY, the film directed by Lucia Puenzo and released in 2007 ; looks like an unusual kind of monster. This article proposes to analyse this film by looking at its poetical and symbolic load.
Eva Tilly
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In Captivity of the Body: Intersex(-uality) in the First Half of the 20th Century
The paper focuses on the issue of intersexuality in the Czech medical discourse during the first half of the 20th century, when the term “intersex”, which is officially used today and distinct from intersexuality, did not yet exist.
Denisa Vídeňská
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Hermaphroditism in Ruditapes decussatus (L.) (Bivalvia) from the Galician coast (Spain)
Inmature individuals of Ruditapes decussatus, collected from the Galician coast (Spain), were maintained in a laboratory open-flow seawater system over a 76-day period at a temperature of 18-20ºC and fed with Isochrysis galbana clone T-ISO.
Marina Delgado, Alejandro Pérez Camacho
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