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Professor of evolutionary genomics
Heidelberg University
July 16, 2025
NOMIS researcher Henrik Kaessmann and collaborators have identified a mechanism that balances the genetic disparity between sex chromosomes in birds. Their findings were published in Nature. Birds have developed a […]
July 16, 2025
Abstract: Birds have a sex chromosome system in which females are heterogametic (ZW) and males are homogametic (ZZ)1. The differentiation of avian sex chromosomes from ancestral autosomes entails the loss of […]