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- who: Jens Zarka from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the paper: ufeffIntersexuality in a natural population of the terrestrial isopod, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
SUMMARY
Sex-determination mechanisms regulate the sexual differentiation of organisms and are highly diverse across the animal kingdom. Intersex individuals that express both male and female traits spontaneously arise at low frequencies in natural populations of certain arthropod species (Narita et_al 2010). In isopods, the appearance of intersex individuals is often linked to infection of Wolbachia, probably one of the most widespread invertebrate-associated bacteria (Bouchon et_al 1998, 2009; Engelst . . .
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