Octopuses Have a Secret Sex Chromosome – and It’s Older Than Dinosaurs
New research at the UO reveals that they have been using one that has existed for 480 million years. The octopus has just ...
What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?
Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could ...
Decoding the giant Y of Silene latifolia: Evolutionary insights into an unusually large sex chromosome
A high-quality genome assembly of Silene latifolia was generated by researchers at CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ...
X Chromosome Mystery: Your Mom’s Genes Could Be Accelerating Brain Aging
UCSF researchers found that brain cells age more quickly when they rely solely on the X chromosome inherited from a female's ...
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Octopuses May Have The Oldest Sex Chromosomes in The Animal Kingdom
Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a ...
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Octopuses have some of the oldest known sex chromosomes
Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...