Counting X’s
A study in fruit flies provides greater understanding of the mechanisms regulating sex determination (according to the number of X chromosomes) in the germline (that ultimately forms eggs or sperm) – the role of a transcription factor called sisterless A (sisA) revealed
Read the published research article here
Image from work by Raghav Goyal, Ellen Baxter and Mark Van Doren
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in eLife (reviewed preprint), August 2024
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