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Evolution and Survival on Eutherian Sex Chromosomes
Since the two eutherian sex chromosomes diverged from an ancestral autosomal pair, the X has remained relatively gene-rich, while the Y has lost most of its genes through the accumulation of deleterious mutations in nonrecombining regions. Presently, it is unclear what is distinctive about genes tha...
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Public Library of Science
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704370/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609352 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000568 |