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Rare dual sex moth emerges at Museum
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4598720d-652e-4e14-9892-5703c4a09282/AB678E1B-6B38-41FE-84CE-F58F50C313CE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nhm.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nhm.ac.uk/img/C6D90999-00FC-43AA-8500-17BA276356EC" alt="This rare dual sex moth hatched at the Amazing Butterflies exhibition" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><STRONG>A rare half male and half female moth has emerged today in the pupae nursery at the Natural History Museum's Amazing Butterflies exhibition.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><P>The left wings of the <EM>Antheraea frithi</EM> moth look female and the right wings look male, with a definite dividing line running along the moth's body.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><P>The moth is a gynandromorph - gyn is Greek for female and andro is Greek for male. It is not a biological hermaphrodite, they have a fully functional set of both male and female sexual organs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><P>In this moth, the female half has only a partial set of female organs and the male half has only part of a male set, neither part being functional.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><P>'This is only the second gynandromorph moth or butterfly I've seen in ten years. And I've seen over a hundred thousand pupae hatch.'</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"><P>'We can only spot the amazingly rare condition in moths and butterflies because the males and females look very different from each other.'</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/may/news_14417.html"> result of an error involving the sex chromosomes at the first cell division</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AB678E1B-6B38-41FE-84CE-F58F50C313CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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