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Neo-sex chromosomes in the black muntjac recapitulate incipient evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes
BACKGROUND: The regular mammalian X and Y chromosomes diverged from each other at least 166 to 148 million years ago, leaving few traces of their early evolution, including degeneration of the Y chromosome and evolution of dosage compensation. RESULTS: We studied the intriguing case of black muntjac...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481430/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18554412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-6-r98 |