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Progress and prospects toward our understanding of the evolution of dosage compensation

In many eukaryotic organisms, gender is determined by a pair of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Degeneration of the non-recombining Y chromosome is a general facet of sex chromosome evolution. Selective pressure to restore expression levels of X-linked genes relative to autosomes accompanies Y-chromo...

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Autores principales: Vicoso, Beatriz, Bachtrog, Doris
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19626444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10577-009-9053-y