[PDF] Top 20 The Evolutionary Significance of Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Reptiles

... the sex-determining mechanism GSD, or be doomed by ...that reptiles with TSD are the most ancient taxa, and have survived many dramatic global climate changes, and therefore should continue to ... See full document

... incubation temperature may have an indirect effect on the size of juveniles by controlling variation in hatching time in nature ...grow. Sex-specific advantages resulting from spatial or temporal patches in ... See full document

... Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) has been documented in four of five living orders of reptiles, including crocodilians, sphenodontians, squamates and testudines (Bull, ... See full document

... of temperature on sex allocation in the field and the lack of effects of temperature observed in the labo- ratory, where the correlation between increasingly male-skewed litters and decreasing ... See full document

... during sex determination in gonochoristic vertebrates is irreversible commitment of the bipotential gonads to testicular or ovarian ...In reptiles with TSD, sex is determined during the middle ... See full document

... the temperature values, obtained during the cutting process, result from the type of work performed by the cutting ...workpiece temperature (1045 steel) by thermocouples during the milling process ... See full document

... The general timing and trends in gene expression observed within the reproductive cycle of D. pulex reared under both long and short photoperiod are consistent with the putative male sex determination ... See full document

... Fossils are our main source of information about extinct organisms and ancestry of modern groups. Since the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, people raised doubts about the utility of fossils in ... See full document

... XRD peaks corresponds to (111), (220), (311) plane matched cubic zinc blende structure (JCPDS No. 05-0566), confirm pure ZnS nanocrystal. With the increase of growth temperature, the intensity corresponding to ... See full document

... Gonadal determination in marine turtles depends on incubation ...ovarian determination by releasing neurotransmitters in a code constructed based on the thermal information (Gutierrez-Ospina et ...for ... See full document

... of sex determination for males was ...of sex determination was 50%. However, the probability that the sex was male when either canine was greater than ... See full document

... served orders of markers between the three maps. Po- tential homology is indicated (dashed and connecting lines in Figure 5) between markers on linkage group III. However, the independent linkage groups could not be ... See full document

... in temperature-dependent induction of HSPs when compared with no RF ...increasing temperature, and was higher at 24 hours post treatment when compared with 0 ... See full document

... study sex chromosome evolution because of their recent radiation from an Asian ancestor ( ~ 2 5 million years ago; Hugall et ...and temperature- dependent sex determination (Ezaz et ... See full document

... , Maxim Integrated Prod- ucts) and transformed using a single parameter heat transfer equation. By comparison with previously used methods, ours is simple to construct and use. At ca. $US1 per sensor, it is also ... See full document

... the sex ratios the F1s produced from selfing, the self-progeny of 20 hermaphrodites was collected throughout their adult lifespan ( ∼ 6 ...The sex of the progeny was determined while they were still larvae ... See full document

... the determination of a VZV-specific serum antibody titer is done by taking blood samples. Methods used for the deter- mination of specific antibody titers are complement-fixation reaction (CF), EIA, ... See full document

... To confirm the activation of the female pathway in MPT embryos with Dmrt1 knockdown, we analyzed the expression of sex-specific marker genes and germ cell distribution patterns at stages 19, 21, 23, 25 and 26. At ... See full document

... This was accomplished by searching for sex-specific DNA in the tuatara, a reptile with temperature-dependent sex determination, using two different molecular genetic techniques... The ma[r] ... See full document

... hatchling sex in a turtle with TSD because long durations imply cool temperatures and short durations imply warm temperatures (Mrosovsky et ...of sex estimation (Mrosovsky et ...estimate sex is not ... See full document