That's great news; I know exactly what you mean about the article wasteland and how the competitions change that landscape, and I'm glad you are going to revive the draft. Have you considered getting in touch with any of the academics who've written on it? I bet they'd be interested to have...
thanks for that wonderfully informative post @Allsfairinloveandbugs :thumbsup
Will you consider writing an article about it, bringing all your research and thoughts on this together in one place that'll be easy for people to find? And you might thereby tempt other BYC members with 'odd' birds...
Here's the abstract from Nature, which was the principal publication of the research
Abstract
In the mammalian model of sex determination, embryos are considered to be sexually indifferent until the transient action of a sex-determining gene initiates gonadal differentiation. Although this model...
this may or may not help you @Allsfairinloveandbugs :lol:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/every-cell-in-a-chicken-has-its-own-male-or-female-identity
(someone else linked to this on another thread a little while ago, but I can't remember who or where, so if they read this...