Talk:Sex selection

message: Is there no article on animal sex selection?  Specifically, many species of animals have unequal numbers of male and female progeny.  For example, many species of bees produce significantly more females, or species of primates with male dispersal which have high-ranking females give birth to females and low-ranking females give birth to males.  In the primates case, I don't think there is any biological understanding of how this process works, although it has been documented and understood from an evolutionary point of view.  I came on to see if I could find an answer.  let me know if you have one.
Also, shouldn't there be another page for this topic?  If there isn't anything out there (which I couldn't find) I'll make one. Terry 05:00, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Natural Animal Sex Selection

message: === merge suggestions ===
My vote is to keep sex selection separate from eugenics, but to merge into it the articles on gendercide and sex-selective abortion and infanticide, which describe controversial sex selective methods.  Eugenics, to my (admittedly naive) thinking, connotes using genetic methods, while sex selection may involve less sophisticated or even after-the-fact techniques. Ojcit 18:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge sex selection and eugenics?

message: My vote is to keep sex selection separate from eugenics, but to merge into it the articles on gendercide and sex-selective abortion and infanticide, which describe controversial sex selective methods.  Eugenics, to my (admittedly naive) thinking, connotes using genetic methods, while sex selection may involve less sophisticated or even after-the-fact techniques. Ojcit 18:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge suggestions 

message: I do not believe that these two subjects should be united.  I am planning to use pre-implantation to concieve a girl, because after research I believe it would be difficult for my husband to do so naturally.  To have even come across infanticide or gendercide while doing this research was an insult to me.  Many women would never consider such means!  Even putting up a child for addoption because of gender alone 'hurts my heart'.  I have a step-son, and when I found I was pregnant I desperately wanted a girl.  But I had a boy and couldn't love him more if he had been a girl.  I also could not concieve of discarding unwanted embryos.  Merging these subjects would bias unfamiliar readers against pre-implantation sex selection, which has no real ethical issues conserning the child, in my opinion.  Thank you.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lynn921 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  merger suggestions 

message: It is my opinion that the text citing Dr Glenn Spaulding as the first to seperate viable populations of X and Y chromosome bearing spermatozoa should be deleted.  The patent used as a reference was not awarded until 1997, some 8 years after the publication of the birth of the first pre-sexed offspring.  Furthermore, this patent was awarded for he separation of sperm by immunological methods not flow cytometry.  As Spaulding is not listed in any of the literature associated with sex-sorting and holds a patent on a different technology, I don't think this is a legitimate or accurate statement to be included in this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skientist (talk • contribs) 13:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inventor of sex-sorting by flow-cytometry 

message: I think Gender selection in the laboratory can be merged to the section on methods of Sex selection. The information Gender selection in the laboratory apparently includes other methods than just laboratory, so it should rather read "Methods of sex selection". However, the article on sex selection is far to short to justify forking the section of methods to a separate article. Rather, it needs expansion with the text currently in Gender selection in the laboratory. Mikael Häggström (talk) 11:26, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've finished the merge now. Mikael Häggström (talk) 05:30, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Sex selection and Gender selection in the laboratory

message: :"Prior to fertilization with IVF, the fertilized eggs can be genetically biopsied with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to increase fertilization success.[8]"
Prior to fertilisation there is no fertilised egg, so should the article instead say shortly (i.e. 2-3 days) after fertilisation of the egg? Or is the word "fertilisation" used not only for (1) conception - the sperm entering the egg, but also (2) transfer - the embryo being injected into the womb (which I suppose is maybe kindof the point at which the couple's infertility ends..). Cesiumfrog (talk) 01:04, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error or just ambiguous terminology? 

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