{"id":151428,"date":"2022-11-29T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-have-solved-the-mystery-of-male-rats-without-y-chromosomes"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:24:51","slug":"scientists-have-solved-the-mystery-of-male-rats-without-y-chromosomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scientists-have-solved-the-mystery-of-male-rats-without-y-chromosomes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have solved the mystery of male rats without Y chromosomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-solved-the-mystery-of-male-rats-without-y-chromosomes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Y chromosome carries a gene called SRY, which turns on male genes on other chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p>The Amami spiny rat, one of the species that lack a Y chromosome and the Sry.<\/p>\n<p>As per the press release, under normal conditions, the Sry gene on the Y chromosome triggers the formation of the testes. However, the Sry gene, along with the Y chromosome, has vanished in a small number of rodent species.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1, 2<\/p>\n<p>By upregulating Sox9 in the absence of Sry, the researchers found that the sequence duplication in Amami spiny rats was a novel regulatory factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Y chromosome carries a gene called SRY, which turns on male genes on other chromosomes. The Amami spiny rat, one of the species that lack a Y chromosome and the Sry. As per the press release, under normal conditions, the Sry gene on the Y chromosome triggers the formation of the testes. However, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}