Re: Platypus genome

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

Is anything known about the sex determination pattern in echidnas? 

Dan

Dann Pigdon wrote:
> Steve Walsh writes:
> > The genome of everyones favourite semi-aquatic monotreme is complete:
> > http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11692.html
> > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=9258
> > It would have been here earlier but the "sequencing and assembling 
> > the platypus genome proved far more daunting than sequencing any 
> > other mammalian genome to date".
>
> The sex-determinging genes alone are the most complex found so far in 
> a mammal (or most other animals for that matter):
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6568-platypus-sex-is-xxxxxrated.html 
>
> XXXXXXXXXX makes a female platypus, XYXYXYXYXY makes a male (with no 
> less than ten chromosomes involved).
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