I recently had the opportunity of listening to an agriculturalist-geneticist describe how he was able to use the genes from a crocodile to decide on the sexing of poultry.
Finally, we changed our method of anaesthetising the fish—which is essential to prevent injury during measurement and sexing.
Use was made of this observation, in order to avoid carbon dioxide anaesthesia affecting flea behaviour, and the sexing of fleas was deferred until after the host-choice experiment.
Sexing embryos by cytological methods.
Sexing of live rabbit blastocysts.
Sexing was done on reaching adulthood.
Therefore, for tsetse a non-destructive sexing method is required that does not impact on the productivity of the colony and which can be incorporated into a mass rearing system.
Hence, she argues that there is a certain generalised passivity ascribed to the body, which allows for making it the receptor of cultural sexing and gendering.
