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Sex, sex chromosomes and gene expression

The X chromosome has fewer testis-specific genes than autosomes in many species. This bias is commonly attributed to X inactivation in spermatogenesis but a recent paper in BMC Biology provides evidence against X inactivation in Drosophila and proposes that somatic tissue- and testis- but not ovary-...

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Autores principales: Lu, Xuemei, Wu, Chung-I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3087707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21542945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-30