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Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals

BACKGROUND: In animals with heteromorphic sex chromosomes, dosage compensation of sex-chromosome genes is thought to be critical for species survival. Diverse molecular mechanisms have evolved to effectively balance the expressed dose of X-linked genes between XX and XY animals, and to balance expre...

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Autores principales: Itoh, Yuichiro, Melamed, Esther, Yang, Xia, Kampf, Kathy, Wang, Susanna, Yehya, Nadir, Van Nas, Atila, Replogle, Kirstin, Band, Mark R, Clayton, David F, Schadt, Eric E, Lusis, Aldons J, Arnold, Arthur P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17352797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/jbiol53