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What dung beetles are teaching us about the genetics of sex differences

  • Written by Cris Ledón-Rettig, Postdoctoral Fellow of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington

Picture a lion: The male has a luxuriant mane, the female doesn’t. This is a classic example of what biologists call sexual dimorphism – the two sexes of the same species exhibit differences in form or behavior. Male and female lions pretty much share the same genetic information, but look quite different.

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