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"The impact of nerve injury on the immune system across the lifespan is sexually dimorphic" by Sam Zhou, Xiang Shi, Alain Zhang, Magali Millecamps, Jeffrey Mogil and Ji Zhang was published in Neurobiology of Pain.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

For example, the liver and the kidney were the most sexually dimorphic in rats and mice, whereas in rabbits, the heart was the most sexually dimorphic and liver and kidney not at all.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

Although sex-biased genes differed between species, the study showed that the types of cells that are sexually dimorphic are the same across species.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

Here we use the informative fossil record of cytheroid ostracods—small, bivalved crustaceans with sexually dimorphic carapaces—to test how sexual selection relates to actual species extinction.

From Nature • Apr. 10, 2018

For example, the comb and wattles of Gallus are sexually dimorphic, being in the original species larger in the cock than in the hen.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.