Deep ancestry of mammalian X chromosome revealed by comparison with the basal tetrapod Xenopus tropicalis

BACKGROUND: The X and Y sex chromosomes are conspicuous features of placental mammal genomes. Mammalian sex chromosomes arose from an ordinary pair of autosomes after the proto-Y acquired a male-determining gene and degenerated due to suppression of X-Y recombination. Analysis of earlier steps in X...

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Autores principales: Mácha, Jaroslav, Teichmanová, Radka, Sater, Amy K, Wells, Dan E, Tlapáková, Tereza, Zimmerman, Lyle B, Krylov, Vladimír
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3472169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22800176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-315

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3472169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22800176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-13-315

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