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[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 110 points 2 days ago (3 children)

If anyone is curious (as I was):

In real life Nemo's dad would have become female after mommy got eaten. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/fisheye-view-tree-of-life/gender-bending-fish/

"of all the animals, fish are sexually the most fluid" - https://www.bbcearth.com/news/fish-are-the-sex-switching-masters-of-the-animal-kingdom

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nemo's dad would have become female after mommy got eaten.

And mated with Nemo. Let's not forget that.

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 1 day ago

Is it possible to learn this power?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Salmon change sex too if I recall correctly.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think salmon change sex to be honest. It seems from the stuff I could find that sex determination for salmon is mostly chromosomal but with divergence at certain temperature during development (or exogenous hormonal influence obviously).

The coolest paper I found while searching was this:

Natural sex change in fish - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0070215318301145

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently they do, or at the very least some types of salmon: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/salmon-puzzle-why-did-males-turn-female

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

No, this is just saying that they have the chromosomes that usually produce male salmon but they have female salmon genitalia. I read that one. Unless I misread they haven't seen these salmon be male and then later female (like the clown fish do).