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Sex chromosome madness in the iconic echidna

- January 10, 2025

short beaked echidna (photo by Allan Whittome, cc0)

This week we published a new, high-quality genome sequence of one of Australia’s most iconic animals, the short beaked echidna. The almost gapless genome sequence of this egg-laying mammal helps researchers to track genomic reshuffling events that gave rise to a perplexing  sex determination system. At first glance they may be mistaken for a weird-looking […]

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