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Duck-billed platypus boasts ten sex chromosomes

Odd mammal hints at evolutionary origin of sex determination.

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  1. GrütznerF., et al. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature03021 (2004).

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Khamsi, R. Duck-billed platypus boasts ten sex chromosomes. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041025-1

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