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A Disorder of Sex Development in a Holstein–Friesian Heifer with a Rare Mosaicism (60,XX/90,XXY): A Genetic, Anatomical, and Histological Study

Animals, 2021
In this study, we describe an eighteen-month-old Holstein–Friesian heifer with a deformed vulva, located abdominally. The heifer showed typical signs of estrus.
Izabela Szczerbal, Marcin Komosa, Joanna Nowacka-Woszuk, Tomasz Uzar, Marek Houszka, Jerzy Semrau, Magdalena Musial, Michal Barczykowski, Anna Lukomska, Marek Switonski   +9 more
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Intersexuality in the Pig [PDF]

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 1971
In 3 relatively large samples intersexuality was found in 0.2 % of the pigs. Litters with intersexes had a deficit of male piglets. The total number of piglets in such litters was correspondingly reduced. Pig losses until the age of 5 weeks were reduced in intersex litters.
L, Bäckström, B, Henricson
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Building blocks of sexuality

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article broadly discusses the building blocks of sexuality by referring to differences in brain development in the womb, specific genetic factors influencing sex-reversal phenotypes and how they give rise to different sexes and sexual orientations ...
Chris Jones, Jurie van den Heever
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XX/XY Chimerism in Internal Genitalia of a Virilized Heifer

Animals, 2022
Five DSD heifers underwent genetic analysis in the present study. We cytogenetically analyzed in vitro cultured leukocytes and searched for SRY, AMELX/AMELY and ZFX/ZFY genes in leukocytes and hair follicles, finding that four of the studied heifers were
Izabela Szczerbal, Joanna Nowacka-Woszuk, Monika Stachowiak, Anna Lukomska, Kacper Konieczny, Natalia Tarnogrodzka, Jakub Wozniak, Marek Switonski   +7 more
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Intersexuality: a feminist look

Feminismo/s, 2012
This paper gives a queer feminist perspective about intersexuality, with Judith Butler’s theories as background to read another three feminist important authors in the study of intersexuality: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Suzanne Kessler and Alice Dreger. These
Mónica Cano Abadía
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Intersex: a critical analysis of the hegemonic sociocultural representations of bodies and identities

methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2019
The purpose of this work is to introduce a critical analysis on intersexuality in order to discuss the hegemonic sociocultural representations of bodies and identities and their impact on the lives of intersex people.
Vanesa Lorena Battaglino
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A high incidence of leukocyte chimerism (60,XX/60,XY) in single born heifers culled due to underdevelopment of internal reproductive tracts

Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2014
Freemartinism, a primary disorder of sex development (DSD) in cattle, is associated with leukocyte chimerism (60,XX/60,XY). The diagnosis of DSD is easy if it is known that a heifer with abnormally developed reproductive tracts originates from a ...
I. Szczerbal, B. Kociucka, J. Nowacka-Woszuk, Z. Lach, J.M. Jaskowski, M. Switonski   +5 more
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Intersexuality in a crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) Intersexualidade em uma raposa (Cerdocyon thous)

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2010
Intersexuality is a reproductive pathology that has been described in wild animals in recent years. However, its occurrence and consequences remain obscure and therefore all aspects of this reproductive disorder deserve attention.
Marcos R.F. Mattos, Lucilene Simões-Mattos, Célso Pilati, Lúcia D.M. Silva, Sheyla F.S. Domingues   +4 more
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Para lá do binarismo? O intersexo como desafio epistemológico e político

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2013
Sexual difference involves various aspects (from biological to social), which, once defined, reduce people to two political categories: woman and man.
Ana Lúcia Santos
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Biologia, direito, perspectiva queer e intersexualidade

Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2018
RESUMO: Partindo da narrativa biográfica de uma estudante de Santarém, no estado do Pará, Brasil, da literatura bioantropológica e bioarqueológica sobre dimorfismo sexual e da perspectiva queer, ponderaremos sobre a necessidade de se rever os sistemas ...
Fabiano Gontijo
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