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Fierce female moles have male-like hormones and genitals
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<blockquote data-quote="madman" data-source="post: 191011" data-attributes="member: 13851"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://theconversation.com/fierce-female-moles-have-male-like-hormones-and-genitals-we-now-know-how-this-happens-149174[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]11734[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Moles live a tough life underground. As a result, they’ve evolved helpful adaptations, such as excavator-like claws. <em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Female moles in particular have evolved an unusual strategy: high levels of the male hormone testosterone.</span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><em>This is an evolutionary advantage. It produces stronger muscles for digging and foraging and aggression, to help mothers defend themselves and their young.</em></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Most of the year, female moles look and behave like males. They have masculinized genitals, with no external vagina and an enlarged clitoris. <u>But when mating season comes, testosterone levels drop and a vagina is formed; mating and birth follow</u>.</span></em></p><p></p><p>How they accomplish this remained a mystery for a long time. <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><em>But now, the <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/208.abstract" target="_blank">complete sequencing</a> of the mole genome has revealed the genetic tweaks underpinning this strange cycle in female moles, by which reproductive organs (gonads) develop and hormones are produced</em></span>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="madman, post: 191011, member: 13851"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://theconversation.com/fierce-female-moles-have-male-like-hormones-and-genitals-we-now-know-how-this-happens-149174[/URL] [ATTACH type="full"]11734[/ATTACH] Moles live a tough life underground. As a result, they’ve evolved helpful adaptations, such as excavator-like claws. [I][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Female moles in particular have evolved an unusual strategy: high levels of the male hormone testosterone.[/COLOR][/I] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][I]This is an evolutionary advantage. It produces stronger muscles for digging and foraging and aggression, to help mothers defend themselves and their young.[/I][/COLOR] [I][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Most of the year, female moles look and behave like males. They have masculinized genitals, with no external vagina and an enlarged clitoris. [U]But when mating season comes, testosterone levels drop and a vagina is formed; mating and birth follow[/U].[/COLOR][/I] How they accomplish this remained a mystery for a long time. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][I]But now, the [URL='https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/208.abstract']complete sequencing[/URL] of the mole genome has revealed the genetic tweaks underpinning this strange cycle in female moles, by which reproductive organs (gonads) develop and hormones are produced[/I][/COLOR]. [/QUOTE]
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