Thinking about an old OC idea intended to fit into the Val & Isaac universe:
A moth-like robot from a moth-like species' protected domestic industry's assembly line, assigned male at construction in the way putting lips on a toaster makes people call it a girl. Originally a janitorial bot, she transed her gender, which involved taking off a lot of decorative elements (in terms of sexual dimorphism, males of that species are very pretty while females are drab and camouflaged better). She joined a band and they call themselves the Noysy Bois.
Her wings are shredded tatters, far smaller than they originally were, painted brown and grey. She is otherwise largely unaltered.

Might also still be a janitor.

A mammals-wide study found no support for Rensch’s rule, a commonly-tested ecological rule that posits that sexual size dimorphism is greater in larger species if males are larger, and in smaller species if females are larger.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/738469

#RenschsRule #EEB #SexualDimorphism

Xudong Huang et al. investigated the diurnal dynamics of #CarbonBalance of male and female mulberry (Morus alba) seedlings by examining photosynthetic rate, dark respiration rate, and #NonstructuralCarbohydrates.

#CarbonAllocation | #CircadianRhythm | #DioeciousPlant | #SexualDimorphism

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf019

Videlier and Sztepanacz re-analyse published data to show that sexual dimorphism may evolve as easily from indirect responses to sexually concordant selection as from direct responses to sexually antagonistic selection.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/737019

#SexualDimorphism #EEB

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Sexual differences and #SexRatios of dioecious plants under stressful environments

Research points:
1️⃣ #SexualDimorphism
2️⃣ sex-specific responses
3️⃣ sex ratio biases

#Dioecy | #StressTolerance | #Competition | #SpatialSegregation

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtab038

In this new Historical Perspective, Ken S. Toyama describes how the original definition of Rensch's rule, which has been overlooked for decades, can impact the way we study sexual dimorphism. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735583

#renschsRule #sexualDimorphism #dimorphism #historicalPerspective

Male and female #orangetip #butterflies.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #butterfly #sexualdimorphism #CountyDown #NorthernIreland @ukbutterflies