Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals

Friday, July 17, 2009 - 04:21 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary processes that control this chromosome's demise.

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