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Parasite-Induced Castration and Intersexuality in Insects

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Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom

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The most important epigenetic factors which are able to influence sexual differentiation in the animal kingdom are hormones, temperature and parasites. Whereas in the first of these factors we are concerned with specific chemical substances, and in the second with a single abiotic environmental component, the third factor is a living organism with a multitude of individual metabolic demands and metabolic achievements.

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    Rudolf Reinboth

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Wülker, W. (1975). Parasite-Induced Castration and Intersexuality in Insects. In: Reinboth, R. (eds) Intersexuality in the Animal Kingdom. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66069-6_13

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