XX protection against age-related mutations
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 08:51
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the University of Valencia's Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology have put the 'unguarded X hypothesis' to the test and confirmed that differences in lifespan between the sexes, a widespread phenomenon in nature, may be due to the protective effect of having two copies of the X chromosome.