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Sixteen kiwi (Apteryx spp) transcriptomes provide a wealth of genetic markers and insight into sex chromosome evolution in birds

BACKGROUND: Kiwi represent the most basal extant avian lineage (paleognaths) and exhibit biological attributes that are unusual or extreme among living birds, such as large egg size, strong olfaction, nocturnality, flightlessness and long lifespan. Despite intense interest in their evolution and the...

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Autores principales: Ramstad, Kristina M., Miller, Hilary C., Kolle, Gabriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27230888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-016-2714-2