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Temporal genomic evolution of bird sex chromosomes

BACKGROUND: Sex chromosomes exhibit many unusual patterns in sequence and gene expression relative to autosomes. Birds have evolved a female heterogametic sex system (male ZZ, female ZW), through stepwise suppression of recombination between chrZ and chrW. To address the broad patterns and complex d...

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Autores principales: Wang, Zongji, Zhang, Jilin, Yang, Wei, An, Na, Zhang, Pei, Zhang, Guojie, Zhou, Qi
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/PMC4272511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0250-8