Open AccessDistorted Sex Ratios: A Window into RNAi-Mediated Silencing
Author(s) -
Patrick M. Ferree,
Daniel A. Barbash
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050303
Subject(s) - biology , sex ratio , sperm , human fertilization , genetics , andrology , x chromosome , drosophila (subgenus) , zygote , demography , embryo , gene , population , embryogenesis , medicine , sociology
Some species of Drosophila have unequal ratios of males to females, and now two genes--one responsible for such sex-ratio distortion and one that suppresses it--have been identified in one of these species.
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