The platypus and chicken have vastly different sex chromosome systems to humans—which can give us valuable insights into our own bodies work. UNSW Sydney researchers have made new discoveries of ...

Gene dosage mechanisms are required to maintain the expression of haploinsufficient genes properly, which, if misregulated, can lead to many developmental disorders. For the first time, researchers ...

Geneticists uncover new insights into how sex chromosome systems work in the platypus and the chicken -- which will lead to better understandings of our own sex chromosome evolution and gene ...