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Title: Melons sexual switching gene offers clues to evolution of sex
Post by: Natasha on August 08, 2008, 12:29:00 PM
Melons sexual switching gene offers clues to evolution of sex

Link (http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/melons-sexual-switching-gene-offers-clues-to-evolution-of-sex_10081324.html)
8/8/2008

While French scientists led by Abdel Bendahmane of the National
Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), isolated the melon sex
determination gene and determined its function, New York University
biologists Jonathan Flowers and Michael Purugganan conducted the
evolutionary analysis of the study.