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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"hermaphroditism"”.
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Gonadal dysgenesis and hermaphroditism
This thesis has developed from a study of a series of patients with a gonadal dysgenesis. Shortly after the inception of the study, Pelani and his co-workers (1954) published a report on the nuclear chromatin pattern in three cases of the syndrome. Their findings provided one of the most …
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Evaluation of Diet, Gametogenesis, and Hermaphroditism in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae)
To determine the effects of different algal diets on freshwater mussels, tissues of Elliptio complanata were sampled for physiological, somatic, and gametogenic condition from August 1999 to May 2000. Treatments included mussels fed Scenedesmus quadricauda (S), Neochloris oleoabundans (N), a no …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
… as Dacre’s Zofloya and Victoria’s figurative hermaphroditism in terms of eighteenth-century views of deformity and physiognomy to argue that both Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s smallpox scars and injured leg and Victoria’s beautiful but too boldly delineated features—challenge …
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Genetic basis of human disorders of gonadal development
… ovotesticular DSD is the least common cause of hermaphroditism in other parts of the world, it is the most common cause of hermaphroditism in South Africa. There have been several studies in the past to determine the cause of ovotesticular DSD in our population but none of these studies found …
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The doctor will fix everything : intersexuality in contemporary culture
… standard beliefs and mythological stories about hermaphroditism. The work begins with a historical perspective, moves through narrative and cultural analysis and ends with an ethical discussion of current treatment standards. A glossary follows the bibliography.
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Sex Allocation in the Caribbean Coral, <em>Porites astreoides</em> (Lamarck)
<p>Hermaphroditism has often been described as a mechanism of enhancing fertilization success in sessile organisms, but may also be advantageous because allocation to male and female function can be manipulated to maximize fitness when energy availability limits reproduction. Sex allocation theory …
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Characterization of the hermaphroditic reproductive system and sexual development in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
… pathways can drive the transition from hermaphroditism to dioecy.
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Tennessee Williams and the southern dialetic : in search of androgyny
… them.Androgyny, for Williams, was not strictly hermaphroditism, though he was drawn to the asexual, but the ideal state of human existence--the integration of paradoxically repellent and attractive forces created by the dialectic. Though his Grail-like pursuit led him to discover different ways …
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Evaluation of Islamic perspectives regarding a medical condition known as disorders of sex development (DSD)
… considered in the context of khunūthah (hermaphroditism), which remained unchanged in nature. However, current biomedical technology has increased our insight into this complex condition. Biomedical studies have appeared to provide a large amount of information on abnormal human …
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Female sterility and carpel development in plants
… females and hermaphrodites occur in nature, with hermaphroditism being the norm. About 6% of flowering plants are dioecious and 5% monoecious, supporting the widely accepted view that bisexual flowers are the ancestral condition. Unisexuality evolves from hermaphroditism by the process of random …
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Environmental variation and life-history evolution: experiments on Caenorhabditis remanei
… the latter can only produce progeny by crossing (hermaphroditism and gonochorism, respectively). Sexual conflict, different reproductive strategies between males and females, has previously been identified in the soil nematode of C. elegans. However, evidence of sexual conflict is lacking in …
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The biology of Boopsoidea inornata (Castelnau, 1861) and life history comparisons within the Sparidae
… compromises the periodic strategy, and that hermaphroditism is at odds with migration. The latter rests on the assumption that the migrant social structure is based on cooperation, for feeding, defence and navigating in schools, whereas the hermaphrodite social structure is based on …