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I've read in the past about animals (fish, I believe) which change their genders depending on age and environmental conditions. If I remember right, they're able to produce eggs while female, and sperm while male. How does this work? I presume they have sex chromosomes, and are therefore genetically one gender or the other. Which? Do they have both ovaries and testes, or do the ovaries turn into testes? I understand how secondary sex traits can be altered, even in humans, by hormonal changes, but I'd thought that internal organs were pretty much set in stone during development.
Re: Gender genetics and expression in sex-changing animals
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