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Faced with inequality: chicken do not have a general dosage compensation of sex-linked genes
BACKGROUND: The contrasting dose of sex chromosomes in males and females potentially introduces a large-scale imbalance in levels of gene expression between sexes, and between sex chromosomes and autosomes. In many organisms, dosage compensation has thus evolved to equalize sex-linked gene expressio...
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099419/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17883843 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-5-40 |