Comments on: First gene linked to temperature-dependent sex determination https://genestogenomes.org/first-gene-linked-to-temperature-dependent-sex-determination/ A blog from the Genetics Society of America Sat, 07 May 2016 12:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Robert https://genestogenomes.org/first-gene-linked-to-temperature-dependent-sex-determination/#comment-4850 Sat, 07 May 2016 12:28:55 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=6339#comment-4850 “Understanding the genetics of sex determination could help predict how reptiles will evolve in response to climate change.”

To my simple and unlettered mind, understanding the genetics of this won’t reveal anything about how it will–or even might–evolve. It will only reveal a little about how the population might react to temperature change–even temperature change wholly independent of changes in climate.

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