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Genetic sex determination, sex chromosome size and sex‐specific lifespans across tetrapods

Sex differences in lifespan are ubiquitous across the tree of life and exhibit broad taxonomic patterns that remain a puzzle, such as males living longer than females in birds and vice versa in mammals. The prevailing unguarded X hypothesis explains sex differences in lifespan by differential expres...

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Autores principales: Sultanova, Zahida, Downing, Philip A., Carazo, Pau
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10107984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36537352
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14130