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The battle of the sexes starts in the oviduct: modulation of oviductal transcriptome by X and Y-bearing spermatozoa

BACKGROUND: Sex allocation of offspring in mammals is usually considered as a matter of chance, being dependent on whether an X- or a Y-chromosome-bearing spermatozoon reaches the oocyte first. Here we investigated the alternative possibility, namely that the oviducts can recognise X- and Y- spermat...

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Autores principales: Almiñana, Carmen, Caballero, Ignacio, Heath, Paul Roy, Maleki-Dizaji, Saeedeh, Parrilla, Inmaculada, Cuello, Cristina, Gil, Maria Antonia, Vazquez, Jose Luis, Vazquez, Juan Maria, Roca, Jordi, Martinez, Emilio Arsenio, Holt, William Vincent, Fazeli, Alireza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-293