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Sex-Biased Gene Expression on the Avian Z Chromosome: Highly Expressed Genes Show Higher Male-Biased Expression

Dosage compensation, the process whereby expression of sex-linked genes remains similar between sexes (despite heterogamety) and balanced with autosomal expression, was long believed to be essential. However, recent research has shown that several lineages, including birds, butterflies, monotremes a...

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Autores principales: Naurin, Sara, Hasselquist, Dennis, Bensch, Staffan, Hansson, Bengt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046854