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Published online 29 June 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010705-1
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Single mite female
Bacteria turn a male mite into a genetically under-endowed female.
Every animal was thought to carry at least one backup copy of each of its chromosomes. No longer - researchers have discovered that an entirely female species of mite has only one copy of its chromosomes1.
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