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To: null and void; reg45; Mrs. Don-o
"The onset of winter, drought, or other environmental stress will trigger some of D. magna's developing parthenogenetic offspring to become males, who then mate with the parthenogenetic females."

From the article.

16 posted on 01/01/2013 12:39:53 PM PST by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought

I remembered that aphids do it too as soon as I mashed post. (although I’m not sure late season aphid males are born male, or whether, like some fishes, they flip later)


17 posted on 01/01/2013 12:53:35 PM PST by null and void (The internet never forgets, or forgives.)
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To: MetaThought

OK...trannies there too, I guess ;o)


20 posted on 01/01/2013 1:38:07 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("He Whom the whole world cannot contain, was enclosed within thy womb, O Virgin, and became Man.")
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