{"id":727448,"date":"2022-06-21T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727448"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:45:03","slug":"unraveling-sex-determination-in-bursaphelenchus-nematodes-a-path-towards-pest-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=727448","title":{"rendered":"Unraveling sex determination in Bursaphelenchus nematodes: A path towards pest control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sex and sexual characteristics constitute key aspects of an organism&#8217;s life and are determined by a biological process known as sex determination. These ever-evolving mechanisms are broadly classified based on the type of &#8220;switch&#8221; that triggers them. Genetic sex determination is dependent on sex chromosomes, such as the X and Y chromosomes in human beings, whereas environmental sex determination depends on factors like temperature and the local ratio between males and females. Although most sex determination mechanisms are genetic or environmental, a third type of sex determination, which depends on completely random factors, also exists. This, however, has not been explored completely.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-unraveling-sex-bursaphelenchus-nematodes-path.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unraveling sex determination in Bursaphelenchus nematodes: A path towards pest control<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sex and sexual characteristics constitute key aspects of an organism&#8217;s life and are determined by a biological process known as sex determination. These ever-evolving mechanisms are broadly classified based&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}