East African cichlid fish offer new understanding of genetic basis of sex determination

Friday, October 2, 2009 - 08:28 in Biology & Nature

Biologists have genetically mapped the sex chromosomes of several species of cichlid fish from Lake Malawi, East Africa, and identified a mechanism by which new sex chromosomes may evolve...

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