An Australian women genetic researcher has said that "Y" chromosomes will come to an end in a few years since the number of genes in Y chromosome fell from 1000 + numbers to 100 recently . Any ideas / Suggestions on this?
That Australian lady, Jenny Graves from La Trobe university, University of Canberra, ANU, said that the y chromosome would become extinct in next 4.5 million years. but no need to worry.
japanese spiny rats survived Y lost.
we would develop methods like incorporating the male gene SRY in autosomes and others from "Y" would be in others, develop new sex determining genes or SRY would be replaced by some other genes.
Cool : ) So , Male Genes (Chromosomes) will survive for rest of the upcoming years :)
That lady is Jenny Marshall Graves and she is absolutely right but as the first response suggests, this is happening slowly over time. Only mole vole's need to worry currently.
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