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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |