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Lack of sex chromosome specific meiotic silencing in platypus reveals origin of MSCI in therian mammals
BACKGROUND: In therian mammals heteromorphic sex chromosomes are subject to meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI) during meiotic prophase I while the autosomes maintain transcriptional activity. The evolution of this sex chromosome silencing is thought to result in retroposition of genes requir...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652719 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0215-4 |