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Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

The same candidate genes and the same autosomes are repeatedly used as sex chromosomes in vertebrates. Are these systems identical by descent, or are some genes or chromosomes intrinsically better at triggering the first steps of sex determination?

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Autores principales: Marshall Graves, Jennifer A, Peichel, Catherine L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20441602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205
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spelling pubmed-28845372011-04-30 Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options? Marshall Graves, Jennifer A Peichel, Catherine L Genome Biol Review The same candidate genes and the same autosomes are repeatedly used as sex chromosomes in vertebrates. Are these systems identical by descent, or are some genes or chromosomes intrinsically better at triggering the first steps of sex determination? BioMed Central 2010 2010-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2884537/ /pubmed/20441602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205 Text en Copyright ©2010 BioMed Central Ltd
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Marshall Graves, Jennifer A
Peichel, Catherine L
Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title_full Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title_fullStr Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title_full_unstemmed Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title_short Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
title_sort are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20441602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205
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