sex changer

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gender changer

A coupler that reverses the gender of one of the connectors in order that two male connectors or two female connectors can be joined together.

Gender Changer

The unit in the middle is the gender changer.

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wurdemanni, the aesthetasc number of the first sex changer (93.9 [+ or -] 4,8) was significantly lower (Student's t-test, t = 6.800, df = 12, P < 0.001) than that of the second sex changer (118.1 [+ or -] 8.1) when they changed sex.

Our current study shows that the aesthetasc number of both MP and EP shrimp is related to the timing of the sex change, and the late sex changer has a greater aesthetasc number than the earlier sex changer.

Effects of sex change on number of olfactory chemoreceptors in Lysmata shrimp

In protogynous sex changers, the most reproductively significant resource that dominance affords is "maleness"; thus the reproductive payoff for dominance is extremely large, and females would be highly motivated to increase their aggressive behavior in times of social instability (i.e., in the absence of a dominant male).

Female papilla ratio remained the same, 1.09 [+ or -] 0.052, whereas the ratio in sex changers more than doubled to 2.26 [+ or -] 0.127 (Fig.

Sex reversal in pairs of Lythrypnus dalli: behavioral and morphological changes

Sponges, cnidarians, and brittle stars all include sex changers, too.

When to change sex: a handy guide from biologists

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