Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs. "Researchers have known about these selfish ...

Take the example of a house fly, which has six pairs of chromosomes. “What's unique about the house fly is that people have found male determiners on all six chromosomes,” said Rich Meisel, an ...

very young chromosome in fruit flies that is similar to chromosomes that arise in humans and is associated with treatment-resistant cancer and infertility. The findings may one day lead to ...

As male Drosophila grow old, selfish genetic elements that are abundant on the Y chromosome become more active ... Quantifying the amount of heterochromatin in the genomes of young and old flies, ...

The risk of cell division producing an egg with the wrong number of chromosomes goes up significantly after the age of 30. But the Dartmouth researchers discovered that in fruit fly oocytes ...

Now, researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have revealed the dynamics of a new, very young chromosome in fruit flies that is similar to chromosomes that arise in humans and ...

Some genes just don’t play fair. Researchers have uncovered a ‘selfish’ X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance in both sperm and eggs.