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Future Ecologies
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The Relationship Between Male and Female Sex Chromosomes
Within one genus of habranatus, there are four different versions of male sex chromosomes. This could boil down to a sexual conflict between the different versions of certain genes. A mutation that would generate a red face could be advantageous in males and disadvantageous in females. The variant that's good for males could be isolated to the Y chromosome.
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