There’s a genetic explanation for why warmer nests turn turtles female
Scientists have ID’d a temperature-sensitive gene that controls young turtles’ sex fate
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TURTLE TRICK Scientists have identified a gene in the red-eared slider turtle, shown here, that makes embryonic turtles turn male or female depending on nest temperature.
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