The Staurotypus turtles and aves share the same origin of sex chromosomes but evolved different types of heterogametic sex determination.

The Staurotypus turtles and aves share the same origin of sex chromosomes but evolved different types of heterogametic sex determination.

Reptiles have a wide diversity of sex-determining mechanisms and types of sex chromosomes. Turtles exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination and genotypic sex determination, with male heterogametic (XX/XY) and female heterogametic (ZZ/ZW) sex chromosomes. Identification of sex chromosomes in m...

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Main Authors: Taiki Kawagoshi, Yoshinobu Uno, Chizuko Nishida, Yoichi Matsuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25121779/?tool=EBI

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