GAGA may be the secret of the sexes—at least in insects

Without a way to equalize the gene expression of the two sex chromosomes—males have XY and females have XX—gender could never have evolved. Scientists are still discovering many details on how the sexes came to be, but a new study in the model organism of fruit flies and other insects reveals that a particularly important secret may be as simple as this: GAGAGA...

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