Fungi, a Possible Answer to the Origin of Sex Chromosomes

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)

Fungi do not have sexes, just so-called mating types. A new study shows that there are great similarities between the parts of DNA that determine the sex of plants and animals and the parts of DNA that determine mating types in certain fungi.

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