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Role of recombination and faithfulness to partner in sex chromosome degeneration

Sex determination in mammals is strongly linked to sex chromosomes. In most cases, females possess two copies of X chromosome while males have one X and one Y chromosome. It is assumed that these chromosomes originated from a pair of homologous autosomes, which diverged when recombination between th...

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Autores principales: Mackiewicz, Dorota, Posacki, Piotr, Burdukiewicz, Michał, Błażej, Paweł
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5997740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29895905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27219-1

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