Open AccessThe 2010 Genetics Society of America Medal: Barbara Meyer
Author(s) -
Sydney Brenner
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
genetics.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.792
H-Index - 246
ISSN - 3049-7094
DOI - 10.1534/genetics.110.114330
Subject(s) - biology , dosage compensation , caenorhabditis elegans , medal , genetics , caenorhabditis , chromosome , evolutionary biology , gene , art , visual arts
AS in many other organisms, sex is determined in Caenorhabditis elegans by the difference in the number of X chromosomes: two in hermaphrodites or females (XX) and one in males (XO). Again, as in other organisms, there is dosage compensation that achieves the same amounts of X chromosome
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