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    While it was known that temperature affects alligator sex determination, the mechanism was unclear. Researchers discovered a thermosensitive protein called TRPV4 that signals differently at temperatures around 30°C and 33°C, producing females and males respectively. Removing TRPV4 and incubating eggs at 33°C resulted in more females than normal, showing TRPV4's role. Understanding this process is important as climate change may disrupt population sex ratios, requiring human intervention to maintain populations.

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    While it was known that temperature affects alligator sex determination, the mechanism was unclear. Researchers discovered a thermosensitive protein called TRPV4 that signals differently at temperatures around 30°C and 33°C, producing females and males respectively. Removing TRPV4 and incubating eggs at 33°C resulted in more females than normal, showing TRPV4's role. Understanding this process is important as climate change may disrupt population sex ratios, requiring human intervention to maintain populations.

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    While it was known that temperature affects alligator sex determination, the mechanism was unclear. Researchers discovered a thermosensitive protein called TRPV4 that signals differently at temperatures around 30°C and 33°C, producing females and males respectively. Removing TRPV4 and incubating eggs at 33°C resulted in more females than normal, showing TRPV4's role. Understanding this process is important as climate change may disrupt population sex ratios, requiring human intervention to maintain populations.

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    TemperatureseffectsontheDNAofAlligators

    Althoughitwasalreadyknownthatthetemperaturealligatoreggsarekeptateffectsthegenderof
    theeggs,howithappenswasntfullyunderstood.Aresearchteamdiscoveredthatthereisaprotein
    calledTRPV4thatisthermosensitive,meaningitreactstotemperaturechangeorheat.Ataround
    o
    o
    low30
    C,TRPV4reactsandsignalsthecells.Itreactsdifferentlyat33
    C,whichgivesmales,than
    o
    o
    at30
    C,whichgivesfemales.Theyalsotriedincubatingeggsat33
    Cafterremovingtheprotein,

    andthereweremorefemalesthantherewouldusuallybeatthattemperature.Itisimportantfor
    scientiststoknowaboutthistopicbecauseclimatechangemakesthenumberofmaleandfemale
    reptileswhoareaffectedbytemperaturebethrownoffbalance,whichcanaffecttheoverall
    populationofthatspecies.Ifweknowfrombeforehandhowthealligatorpopulationmightreact
    becauseofclimatechange,wecouldpotentiallybreedmoreofwhichevergenderthereislessofto
    keeptheirpopulationfromdecliningfurther.

    WorkCited:
    NationalInstitutesofNaturalSciences.(2015,December23).Howtemperaturedetermines
    sexinalligators.
    ScienceDaily
    .RetrievedJanuary12,2016from
    www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151223134112.htm

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