sex chromosome: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determination. Sep 18, 2026
Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - Sex Chromosome Evolution: So Many Exceptions to the Rules (PDF). Apr 08, 2026
Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Chromosomes. Dec 03, 2025
Add new Web site: White Rose Research Online - Sex chromosome evolution: So many exceptions to the rules (PDF). Jul 31, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - How to make a sex chromosome. Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: WebMD - What Are Sex Chromosomes (XX and XY Chromosomes)? Sep 16, 2024
Add new Web site: CellPress - Cell Genomics - Representing sex chromosomes in genome assemblies. Jul 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Whitehead Institute - Tracing the Evolution of Sex Chromosomes. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: PNAS - Multiple independent origins of sex chromosomes in amniotes. Aug 14, 2023
Add new Web site: Nature - Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determination. Apr 25, 2023
Added information on differences in sex development. Jan 24, 2023
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings B - Sex chromosome evolution: historical insights and future perspectives. Jan 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - Sex Chromosomes. Oct 06, 2022
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sex chromosome evolution: historical insights and future perspectives. Aug 18, 2022
Added a video about sex chromosomes and the inheritance of biological sex. May 22, 2020
Corrected display issue. Apr 26, 2018
Added new Web site: Kimball's Biology Pages - Sex Chromosomes. Dec 29, 2008
Added new Web site: EuroNet - Crossing over in the Sex-chromosome. Dec 29, 2008
Added new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Duisburg, Germany. Dec 29, 2008
Added new Web site: Palomar College - Sex Chromosome Abnormalities. Dec 29, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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