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WITH reference to Dr. R. Spärck's statement (NATURE, October 7, p. 480) that the male stage in the oyster is due to the coldness of the temperature, it should be pointed out that in various hermaphrodite mollusca, such as Helix and Arion, the reason for the passage of the indifferent epithelial cell, either to oogonium or spermatogonium, is at present unknown. Older authors considered that those cells near yolk, or near a superior nutrimental radius became eggs, and that those less exposed to steady streams of nourishment became spermatocytes.
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GATENBY, J. Sex Change in Mollusca. Nature 110, 544 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110544b0
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