🌈 breaking ranks.Sep 21, 2024

#TIL about Gynandromorphs
[Gynander, German]

This rare bird is male on one side and female on the other. "Unlike #hermaphrodites, which also have genitals of both sexes, gynandromorphs are completely male on one side of the body and female on the other."

Rare in birds, a bit more often observed in insects and crustaceans. Beautiful thing!

[I have an idea for my next tattoo!!1]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bird-male-female-grosbeak-gynandromorph

This rare bird is male on one side and female on the other

Researchers at Powdermill Nature Reserve near Pittsburgh spotted a bird with pink male coloring on half of its body and yellow female hues on the other.

Science News
Petra van CronenburgOct 6, 2023
Did you ever watch #slugs mating? Here: the European Red #Slug Arion rufus. Slugs are one of the best examples that #nature is by no means limited to binary gender.
Slugs are #hermaphrodites. They find their partners by smell, one follows the other nibbling their tail if they want sex. Nature's fantasy is great: Some slugs use harpoon-like love darts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_dart , some dance and they can intertwine their penises.😎 The whole love story: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/insects-invertebrates/how-do-slugs-mate
Love dart - Wikipedia

Joris M. KoeneAug 11, 2023
Looking forward to #Behaviour2023 in Bielefeld DE). As invited speaker for the symposium Socially Transferred Materials (organised by @SanjaHakala and @Adria) I will cover #snails #allohormones #hermaphrodites #SeminalFluidProteins #lovedarts and more. If you are interested and attending the meeting, come find me afterwards (Symposium R)
Yumi NakaderaJun 22, 2023

I am so privileged to attend Tree of Sex ver. 2.0 workshop at Wellcome Sanger institute. I am an out-of-the-field researcher in the group, but they are so nice and fun! (Still that was one of the scariest presentations I have ever done..)
#SexDetermination #reproduction #sexchromosome #asexual #hermaphrodites

https://twitter.com/treeofsex/status/1671442237723488257?s=46&t=pKpFaLG7LT9l9SMbRXCivg

Scientific FrontlineJun 7, 2023
Much of #plant breeding and global #food production relies on the #pollination of #flowers to produce #fruits that are eaten and used to produce further progeny.
This process might sound straightforward, but it is complicated because some flowers contain only #male or #female #reproductive #organs, others contain both
( #hermaphrodites ), and some can even switch sexes.
#Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/06/bio06072301.html
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How flowers become male, female, or hermaphroditic is a complex phenomenon.

Joris M. KoeneMar 28, 2023
Here is a 17 sec impression of my two-week visiting professorship at #LEEC, Université #Sorbonne #Paris Nord (hosted by Cristina Lorenzi). What you do not see is my #socialtransfers seminar, discussions with PhDs/researchers about experiments, collaborative grants and manuscripts and the cool #hermaphrodites they work on #Ophryotrocha. All-in-all a welcome change of pace and scenery (despite riots and public transport and garbage-pickup strikes).