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Paul Hollander
at Sat Nov 8 17:30:15 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]
Probably "sexlinked".
Most sexlinked mutant genes are found in the unpaired portion of the larger sex chromosome when a species has two sex chromosomes of different sizes. For example, male mammals have a large X and small Y chromosome, and female mammals have two large X chromosomes. Male birds and colubrid snakes have two large Z chromosomes, and female birds and colubrid snakes have a large Z chromosome and a small W chromosome. Unfortunately, I do not know if pythons have unequal sized sex chromosomes.
Paul Hollander
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