Submitted by TheBloxyBloxGuy t3_11mdtz4 in askscience
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Reply to comment by CyberneticPanda in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy
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CyberneticPanda t1_jbi8ed9 wrote
It's SRY that gets lost, and it would probably not get lost all at once, but instead get a mutation that makes it work less well and shifts the chances of being born male lower. That will create selective pressure for the mutation near SOX9 (or another that substitutes for SRY) to spread through the population.
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