Sex reversal of the newt Triturus cristatus reared at extreme temperatures
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Sex reversal of the newt Triturus cristatus reared at extreme temperatures
Int J Dev Biol.
2000 Oct.
Abstract
Crested newt larvae were reared at defined temperatures, either from uncleaved eggs or from early feeding larvae, until metamorphosis when sexual differentiation had occurred. Trials at 18-24 degrees C showed a 1:1 sex ratio. A higher temperature trial produced more males than females, including some XX neomales. Lower temperatures resulted in a significant excess of females, including XY neofemales. Sex reversal only occurred in about half the possible cases on average. Extreme temperatures must perturb the normal XX/XY system of sex determination, to reveal either an ancestral ZZ/ZW system or a still more primitive environmental control. It is suggested that neofemales (but not neomales) could occur in nature.
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