The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have ...

Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

Scientists at University of Oregon discover one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes in California two-spot octopus.

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

The research, conducted by researchers at the University of Oregon and published in Current Biology, provides the first ...

What stands out the most about this ancient cephalopod sex chromosome is how little the chromosome has changed over time.

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Patients with Klinefelter and triple X syndromes show an increased prevalence of SLE and Sjögren disease, likely due to the ...

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The research suggest octopus and other cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, all rely on the ancient chromosome to ...

There are notable differences between men and women in their susceptibility to many human diseases, including cardiovascular ...