Are Fruit Flies Man Enough?

Mar 05, 2011

Researchers at Brown University have found that male fruit flies can express a protein that lets them upregulate their X chromosome in order to compensate for "genetic shortcomings," reports LiveScience's Jennifer Welsh.

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