com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics
Class Allele_Sex

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.tostring0.AToString
      com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.Attribute_
          com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_
              com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_Binary
                  com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_Sex

All Implemented Interfaces:

Allele, Attribute, Basic, CacheSignature, Censusible, EitherOr, Sexual, net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable, net.sf.tostring0.IToString

public final class Allele_Sex
extends Allele_Binary
implements Sexual

Unlike Allele_Dominance, which uses upper and lower case to denote dominance, the two different alleles of the Allele_Sex type are "Y" and "X" for male and female, respectively.

Author:

Robin Hillyard

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	S_X X
static java.lang.String	S_Y Y
static java.lang.String	SEX sex
static Allele	X Allele_Sex(false)
static Allele	Y Allele_Sex(true)

Fields inherited from class com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_

LOG

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.IToString

ANGBR_OPEN, ANGBRA_CLSE, BRA_CLSE, BRA_OPEN, BRCE_OPEN, BRCS_CLSE, COLON, LIST_SEPARATOR, MAX_ELEMENTS_DEFAULT, S_MT, S_PERCENT, SEPARATOR, SPACE

Method Summary

boolean

isFemale() Method to get the sex of this organism.

Methods inherited from class com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_Binary

getBases, getValueAsBoolean, setBases, setValue

Methods inherited from class com.rubecula.darwin.domain.genetics.Allele_

censusMe, getCensusibleChildren, getLocus, getSignature, getStringChars, setLocus, setStringChars, toString

Methods inherited from class com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.Attribute_

equals, getAttribute, getIdentifier, getValue, hashCode

Methods inherited from class net.sf.tostring0.AToString

toString, toStringBrief, toStringId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.rubecula.darwin.domain.helper.Attribute

getAttribute, getValue

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.IToString

toStringBrief, toStringId

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.tostring0.Identifiable

getIdentifier

Field Detail

Y

public static final Allele Y

Allele_Sex(true)

X

public static final Allele X

Allele_Sex(false)

S_X

public static final java.lang.String S_X

X

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Constant Field Values

S_Y

public static final java.lang.String S_Y

Y

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Constant Field Values

SEX

public static final java.lang.String SEX

sex

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

isFemale

public boolean isFemale()

Description copied from interface: Sexual

Method to get the sex of this organism. I will not use the word gender as it is inappropriate!

Specified by:

isFemale in interface Sexual

Returns:

true if this organism is female.

See Also:

Sexual.isFemale()