Convergent Evolution of Chicken Z and Human X Chromosomes by Expansion and Gene Acquisition

In birds, as in mammals, one pair of chromosomes differs between the sexes. In birds, males are ZZ and females ZW. In mammals, males are XY and females XX. Like the mammalian XY pair, the avian ZW pair is believed to have evolved from autosomes, with most change occurring in the chromosomes found in...

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Autores principales: Bellott, Daniel W., Skaletsky, Helen, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Mardis, Elaine R., Graves, Tina, Kremitzki, Colin, Brown, Laura G., Rozen, Steve, Warren, Wesley C., Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20622855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09172

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20622855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09172

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