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Embryo of marine organism Bonellia develop into male if it develops in ...

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Close vicinity of mature female

The marine echiuran worm Bonellia viridis is a classical example of environmental sex determination. Its planktonic larvae are sexually undifferentiated when they settle on the sea bed.

A larva that settles freely on the substratum, away from any adult, develops into a large free-living female. A larva that lands on the extended proboscis of a mature female is exposed to a masculinising chemical (bonellin) from her tissues, which drives it to develop into a tiny dwarf male that migrates into her genital pouch and lives as a parasitic sperm producer.

Hence, an embryo of Bonellia develops into a male when it grows in close vicinity of a mature female.

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