The terms pseudo-hermaphroditism and hermaphroditism have been used in different senses by various authors and for this reason they were discarded by Wilkins (1950). He describes as 'intersexes' (hermaphrodites) those cases in which the sexual dimorphism is not due to a demonstrable endocrine abnormality, and as cases of 'sex reversal' those in which there is an endocrine abnormality. Hormonal ...

There has been much recent interest in the role for genetic conflicts to drive the evolution of genetic systems. Here we consider the evolution of hermaphroditism in the scale insect tribe Iceryini and the suggestion that this has been driven by conflict between a female and an infectious male tissue derived from her father. We perform an inclusive-fitness analysis to show that, owing to geneti...

Abstract Background Transverse testicular ectopia (TTE) is a rare congenital anomaly in which both the testis are same hemiscrotum or one inguinal canal of side. It usually associated with other anomalies such as hernia, persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS), true hermaphroditism, and pseudo-hermaphroditism. In this case report, we present TTE an adult patient fused vas deferens, aplastic r...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Poa subgenus Poa supersect. Homalopoa has diversified extensively in the Americas. Over half of the species in the supersection are diclinous; most of these are from the New World, while a few are from South-East Asia. Diclinism in Homalopoa can be divided into three main types: gynomonoecism, gynodioecism and dioecism. Here the sampling of species of New World Homalopoa is ...