Males, the Wrongly Neglected Partners of the Biologically Unprecedented Male–Female Interaction of Schistosomes

Schistosomes are the only platyhelminths that have evolved separate sexes, and they exhibit a unique reproductive biology because the female’s sexual maturation depends on a constant pairing contact with the male. In the female, pairing leads to gonad differentiation, which is associated with substa...

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Main Authors: Zhigang Lu, Sebastian Spänig, Oliver Weth, Christoph G. Grevelding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2019.00796/full