temperature dependent sex determination

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Climate Change Skews Ratio of Female to Male Sea Turtle Hatchlings

New research finds Loggerhead Sea Turtle populations are becoming female-dominant as rising temperatures skew temperate sex determination. The Loggerhead Sea Turtles of Cape Verde have undergone an unnatural phenomenon in recent years—an increasing majority of hatchlings are female. Dr. Lucy Hawkes, an ecologist at the University of Exeter has recently published a paper which found […]

Written by on November 8, 2019