Genetic conflict in fish led to evolution of new sex chromosomes
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 14:14
in Biology & Nature
University of Maryland biologists have genetically mapped the sex chromosomes of several species of cichlid (pronounced "sick-lid") fish from Lake Malawi, East Africa, and identified a mechanism by which new sex chromosomes may evolve. In research published in the journal Science (October 1, 2009), Professor Thomas D.