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How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?

Females and males often have markedly different mortality rates and life spans, but it is unclear why these forms of sexual dimorphism evolve. The unguarded X hypothesis contends that dimorphic life spans arise from sex differences in X or Z chromosome copy number (i.e., one copy in the “heterogamet...

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Autores principales: Connallon, Tim, Beasley, Isobel J., McDonough, Yasmine, Ruzicka, Filip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9346086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937469
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.292