Steven, Yes, Dr. Ohm observed sex reversals in this species. Others since then have not been able to repeat his experiments with any consistency. I heard of several Ph.D. theses on this, but apparently none were successful until now I guess. Mike Wise swaldron@slip.net wrote: > sorry to not share in the excitement...but haven't we known that for about > 15 years now? so this where all our taxpayer's dollars are going... > > >Has anyone read the following reference?! If I get to it soon, I'll post > >the abstract. > > > >Carruth, L.L. 2000. Freshwater cichlid Crenicara punctulata is a > >protogynous sequential hermaphrodite. Copeia 2000: 71-82. > > > > > >Vinny > > > > > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > ><HTML><HEAD> > ><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> > ><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> > ><STYLE></STYLE> > ></HEAD> > ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> > ><DIV>Has anyone read the following reference?! If I get to it soon, I'll > >post the abstract.</DIV> > ><DIV> </DIV> > ><DIV>Carruth, L.L. 2000. Freshwater cichlid <I>Crenicara punctulata</I> is a > >protogynous sequential hermaphrodite. Copeia 2000: 71-82. </DIV> > ><DIV> </DIV> > ><DIV> </DIV> > ><DIV>Vinny</DIV> > ><DIV> </DIV> > ><DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> > > Steven J. Waldron > > http://WWW.ANURA.ORG > "Natural History, Captive Husbandry, Conservation and > Biophilia of Tropical Frogs" > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. > For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, > email apisto-request@listbox.com. > Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"!