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Indonesia is preparing to deploy hundreds of soldiers to its eastern provinces in an effort to combat separatist groups.
Recent shoot-outs with armed fighters in Papua and West Papua have forced villagers to flee their homes.
There is now concern the government's decision to designate Papuan groups as terrorists may inflame tensions even further.
Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington reports from Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Researchers have offered a chemical explanation for sex change in a tropical fish. ↓↓More info and references below↓↓
For a tropical fish called the bluehead wrasse, sex isn’t always permanent. When a group of the fish loses its dominant male, the biggest female rapidly changes sex, taking on distinctive male coloring and producing mature sperm in as little as 8 days. Although this change is well documented, the molecular mechanisms that drive it have remained unclear. Now, an international group of researchers has offered a chemical explanation for the transformation after analyzing tissue samples from transitioning fish.
Read more:
Stress, novel sex genes, and epigenetic reprogramming orchestrate socially controlled sex change | Science Advances
https://advances.sciencemag.or....g/content/5/7/eaaw70
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