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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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| 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 |