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Article Source: World ScienceIn adult female mice, switching off one gene seems to start turning the ovaries into testicles and triggers the production of male hormones at normal male levels, scientists say.
The curious findings have led two researchers to remark in a published paper that, biologically speaking, females may be engaged in a lifelong "battle to suppress their inner male."
Interesting.
#1 - Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:17 PM ESTThat's right. We'll be girlfriends and wives for you guys but @!$%# with us and we'll pull the ovaries up and drop some balls.
That's right. We'll be girlfriends and wives for you guys but @!$%# with us and we'll pull the ovaries up and drop some balls.
That may be one of your best ever comments dkaz! You know there is real money to be made her on the vine. Someone needs to publish a book with all these ROFLMAO comments that many of us drop on a daily basis.
I've been engaged in a lifelong battle to suppress my inner walrus. We all have our burdens...
#2 - Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:13 PM ESTI started to read the article, but by the time I'd read the word "Concomitant," I was already all confused.
There's something to this, I suppose. I have three brothers, no sisters, and I always thought that was why I got along with males better than I do with females, but maybe my Fox gene is just a little wonky. Or something like that.
#5 - Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:10 PM EST
It would seem “testicular development is actively repressed throughout the life of females,” added Andrew Sinclair and Craig Smith of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, in a paper published in the same issue of Cell.
Slightly more seriously, doesn't this fly in the face of the usual understanding that males are the "broken chromosome" and that in the absence of the Y sex defaults to female?
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