THE CURIOUS CHROMOSOMES OF A CURIOUS FRUIT

Incipient sex chromosomes have been found in New Zealand's eponymous export, the kiwifruit. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have mapped the kiwifruit genome and pin-pointed the sex-determining locus.
It has previously been suggested that, among the kiwifruit plant's small (

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