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But they're calling it a third sex because it's due to "normal expression of the species' genes", not because of hermaphroditism.
by smrk007 5y ago
But they're calling it a third sex because it's due to "normal expression of the species' genes", not because of hermaphroditism.
- empthought 5y agoIt is a third (or fourth) phenotype, not a third sex. The abstract of the source article is careful to spell this out; the clickbait site introduced the error. "Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self‐compatible mating system." -- i.e. how might self-pollinating plants have developed?