Avian W and mammalian Y chromosomes convergently retained dosage-sensitive regulators

After birds diverged from mammals, different ancestral autosomes evolved into sex chromosomes in each lineage. In birds, females are ZW and males ZZ, but in mammals females are XX and males XY. We sequenced the chicken W chromosome, compared its gene content with our reconstruction of the ancestral...

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Autores principales: Bellott, Daniel W., Skaletsky, Helen, Cho, Ting-Jan, Brown, Laura, Locke, Devin, Chen, Nancy, Galkina, Svetlana, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Koutseva, Natalia, Graves, Tina, Kremitzki, Colin, Warren, Wesley C., Clark, Andrew G., Gaginskaya, Elena, Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28135246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.3778

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