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Female silkworms have the sex factor

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Sex determination in the silkworm Bombyx mori has been found to depend on the presence or absence of a small RNA. This is thought to be the first example of a molecule other than a protein mediating this process. See Letter p.633

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Figure 1: Sex determination in silkworms.

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