It Takes Two to Tango: Including a Female Perspective in Reproductive Biology
It Takes Two to Tango: Including a Female Perspective in Reproductive Biology
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DOI：
10.1093/icb/icaa084
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Hayssen, Virginia
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作者：
Orr, Teri J.;Burns, Mercedes;Hayssen, Virginia
与许多科学学科一样，生殖生物学领域在术语和研究重点方面存在偏见。例如，雌性经常被描述为在生殖行为中害羞和被动的参与者，如果她们进行额外的配对交配，则被称为“滥交”。另一方面，男性则被视为积极控制领土，并与其他男性打架。如果雄性与多只雌性交配，就被称为“繁衍交配”。同样，教科书经常说明减数分裂发生在男性身上，而不是女性身上。这一版的综合与比较生物学(ICB)包括了一系列从女性角度关注生殖的论文。这些论文是我们在关于女性生殖生物学的专题讨论会和补充会议上提出的工作的一部分。在这次圆桌讨论中，我们使用问答形式，利用研讨会中涉及的不同视角和声音，探讨与女性生物学研究相关的理论、文化、教学和科学问题。我们希望这次对话将提供一个踏脚石，将生殖科学和教学推向一个更具包容性和更客观的框架。
Like many scientific disciplines, the field of reproductive biology is subject to biases in terminology and research foci. For example, females are often described as coy and passive players in reproductive behaviors and are termed "promiscuous" if they engage in extra-pair copulations. Males on the other hand are viewed as actively holding territories and fighting with other males. Males are termed "multiply mating" if they mate with multiple females. Similarly, textbooks often illustrate meiosis as it occurs in males but not females. This edition of Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB) includes a series of papers that focus on reproduction from the female perspective. These papers represent a subset of the work presented in our symposium and complementary sessions on female reproductive biology. In this round table discussion, we use a question and answer format to leverage the diverse perspectives and voices involved with the symposium in an exploration of theoretical, cultural, pedagogical, and scientific issues related to the study of female biology. We hope this dialog will provide a stepping-stone toward moving reproductive science and teaching to a more inclusive and objective framework.