Disorders of sexual development (DSD) refers to a group diseases that links the mismatch between an individual’s genetic and gonadal its phenotype. Ovotesticular DSD (true hermaphroditism) is one such disease, in which both male female gonads are present. A 15-year-old boy with history surgery for non-palpable testis was examined due bilateral gynecomastia known gonosomal mosaic Klinefelter syn...

Our aim was to assess to what extent the traditional term ‘hermaphrodite’ is still in use to describe ‘disorders of sex development’ (DSD) as per the terminology recommended by the 2006 Chicago Consensus Statement. For this purpose we systematically searched Pubmed and Scopus using the keywords hermaphroditism, hermaphrodite, pseudohermaphrodite, pseudohermaphroditism and intersex in the title ...

BACKGROUND Shrimp in the genus Lysmata have a unique and rare sexual system referred to as protandric simultaneous hermaphroditism, whereby individuals mature first as male (male phase), and then the female function may also develop as the shrimp grow, so that the gonad is able to produce both eggs and sperms simultaneously, a condition called simultaneous hermaphroditism (euhermaphrodite phase...

Dioecy (gonochorism) is dominant within the Animalia, although a recent review suggests hermaphroditism is also common. Evolutionary transitions from dioecy to hermaphroditism (or vice versa) have occurred frequently in animals, but few studies suggest the advantage of such transitions. In particular, few studies assess how hermaphroditism evolves from dioecy or whether androdioecy or gynodioec...

Male and female social roles are predicated on the fact that male and female reproductive functions are separated in different individuals. This paper asks why. That is, why is gonochorism, not hermaphroditism, the rule among vertebrates. We argue that (simultaneous) hermaphroditism may be unstable in the face of heterogeneity. Building on the Bateman principle – access to eggs, not sperm, limi...