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Platypus has 10 sex chromosomes

Nick Atkinson

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Genome Biology 2004, 5:spotlight-20041029-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20041029-01

Published: 29 October 2004

Studies in PNAS and Nature find that sperm are either XXXXX (female) or YYYYY (male)