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Regional differences in dosage compensation on the chicken Z chromosome

BACKGROUND: Most Z chromosome genes in birds are expressed at a higher level in ZZ males than in ZW females, and thus are relatively ineffectively dosage compensated. Some Z genes are compensated, however, by an unknown mechanism. Previous studies identified a non-coding RNA in the male hypermethyla...

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Autores principales: Melamed, Esther, 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/PMC2375040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17900367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2007-8-9-r202