In extraordinary cases, some animals have each chromosome in very particular ... male and female sections of the same feather. But bilateral gynandromorphism is something special.

The chromosomes of an animal ... Meet the gynandromorphs — parts of their bodies are male the other parts are female. In perfect bilateral gynandromorphism, the creature's body is divided ...

producing a bilateral gynandromorph, or occur in a mosaic pattern across the body. The condition can result from sex-chromosome aneuploidy (that is, aberrant loss or gain of a sex chromosome ...

This is because the sex chromosomes are ancient in many species, including in model organisms such as humans, mice and Drosophila melanogaster, which has hindered reconstruction of the ancestral ...

A gynandromorph's body is part male, part female. In the most spectacular cases, called bilateral gynandromorphs ... sex is determined by a set of two chromosomes. For us, two X chromosomes ...

This individual is only the second of the species ever recorded exhibiting this trait—called bilateral gynandromorphism ... while males have two Z chromosomes. Gynandromorphism could occur ...

Researchers have found a way to sequence a large portion of the Y chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster -- the most that the Y chromosome has been assembled in fruit flies.

The anomaly is known as a bilateral gynandromorph. In plain language ... In mammals, he says, males have one copy of each sex chromosome (X and Y) while females have two copies of the X chromosome.

A green honeycreeper spotted on a farm in Colombia exhibits a rare biological phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphism ... birds have two different sex chromosomes, designated W and Z ...

Known as a bilateral gynandromorph ... as well. Gynandromorphism in birds likely occurs when the egg from which the bird developed had two different sex chromosomes instead of just one, according ...