University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

A new study in Nature shows that when pregnant mice don’t have enough iron, their (usually male) fetuses with a Y sex ...

For decades, scientists have known that platypuses and echidnas – Australia's unique egg-laying mammals – have another ...

Two X chromosomes mean girl, and an X paired with a Y means boy. For the last 300 million years, this system has worked very ...

"It's never been shown before that iron can flip such an important developmental switch." Earlier research established that ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and ...

Developmentally expressed genes play a fundamental role in the formation of a wide range of organs. The Y chromosome-located ...