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Lack of oxygen proves a gender bender

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Fish starved of air more likely to turn into boys.

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  1. 2003 UN Global Environment Outlook Year Book, http://www.unep.org/geo/yearbook/yb2003/089.htm . - (2003).

  2. ShangE., et al. Environ. Sci. Technol., 40(9). 3118 - 3122 (2006).

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