The genetic mechanism of B chromosome drive in rye illuminated by chromosome-scale assembly. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53799-w ...

Introduction The somatic sex determination pathway in Drosophila melanogaster is a textbook example of an RNA splicing cascade. Somatic cells use a sex-specific X chromosome karyotype to initiate the ...

Human karyotype of Edward syndrome, Autosomal abnormalities,... Human karyotype of Edwards' syndrome. Autosomal abnormalities. Edwards' syndrome have an extra copy of one of these chromosomes, ...

Evolutionary chromosomal changes may take a million years in nature, but researchers are now reporting a novel technique enabling programmable chromosome fusion that has successfully produced mice ...

In comparison, the human genome is made out of a total of 46 chromosomes. However, about 15% of all eukaryotic species additionally carry supernumerary chromosomes referred to as "B chromosomes".

B chromosomes have a functional effect on sex determination in a species of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, according to a study by Japanese researchers. The researchers found sex-ratio ...

B chromosomes have a functional effect on sex determination in a species of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, according to a study by Japanese researchers to be published in open-access journal ...

In about 15% of the animal and plant species, the karyotype of some individuals contains one or more chromosomes in excess of the basic set (Bukeboom, 1994). The properties of these supernumerary ...