Sperm trading can resolve hermaphrodite mating conflicts
By directly manipulating mating performance in a tropical sea slug, Chelidonura hirundinina, researchers of the University of Tbingen have now shed light on the bizarre reproductive conflicts encountered by hermaphroditic animals. In some hermaphroditic species, such as C. hirundinina, mating partn...Nematode courting caught on camera
...es of the species Caenorhabditis elegans . As the hermaphrodite does not actively co-operate in mating, it is up t... He presses the front side of his tail against the hermaphrodite while he backs along and searches for the vulva. I...l makes a sharp turn, curling round the end of the hermaphrodite to continue searching on the other side. On findin...Why don't more animals change their sex?
...sex change actually occurs, the researchers built theoretical models of the hermaphrodite and separate-sex life histories. In their "game" models, sex change "player... male and female offspring it produces. "We were surprised to see that a hermaphrodite could spend 30 percent of its lifetime in the process of change sex, and st...Mate or hibernate? That's the question worm pheromones answer
...s a model for understanding the basic biology of humans, animals and other worms that threaten human health. C. elegans worms are either male or hermaphrodite meaning they feature both male and female reproductive organs and to pinpoint how they communicate, UF researchers and their collaborators isolated ...Scientists alter sexual orientation in worms
...s as females because they produce offspring. A hermaphrodite makes both eggs and sperm, Jorgensen says. She doe...e neurons brain cells common to both the male and hermaphrodite brain are sexualized, and that the extra CEM nerv.... The system is flexible. -- Next, we took the hermaphrodite brain and we activated the genes that determine ma...Living laboratory found on shoreline statues
... sheltered parts of the figures such as the inner thigh protect them from extreme harsh conditions. "This particular breed is a cross-fertilising hermaphrodite which means that once it has settled, the barnacle can produce multiple broods of larvae ?increasing its local population size several times in a year...Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun
...ntiasis), from which more than 100 million human beings suffer worldwide. Methods PREPARATION OF ADULT hermaphrodite C. ELEGANS AND COTTON RAT PARASITE L. SIGMODONTIS FOR MICROPARTICLE BOMBARDMENT C. elegans is cultivated on NGM agar plates (B...