Researchers discover how model organism Tetrahymena plays roulette with seven sexes
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 17:30
in Biology & Nature
It's been more than fifty years since scientists discovered that the single-celled organism Tetrahymena thermophila has seven sexes. But in all that time, they've never known how each cell's sex, or "mating type," is determined; now they do. The new findings are published 26 March in the open access journal PLOS Biology.