For softshell turtles, you’re male until you're female
The strange world of the reptile gender reveal.
Softshell turtle embryos start as males, but with the right temperature and proteins can become female before they ha...
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Shedding new light on how males develop
Researchers find a missing gene fragment
By Peter Koopman, University of QueenslandIt’s one of the most important genes in biology: “Sry”, the gene that m...