How Male Sex Chromosomes Maintain Their 'Fountain of Youth' (IMAGE)

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How Male Sex Chromosomes Maintain Their 'Fountain of Youth'

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A new study of the European common frog, Rana temporaria, published in the advanced online edition of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, offers some fresh clues that challenge the conventional scientific wisdom on sex-chromosome evolution.

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Dr Christophe Dufresnes

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