The Biology and Evolution of Mammalian Y Chromosomes
Mammals have the oldest sex chromosome system known: the mammalian X and Y chromosomes evolved from ordinary autosomes beginning at least 180 million years ago. Despite their shared ancestry, mammalian Y chromosomes display enormous variation among species in size, gene content, and structural compl...
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Annual Reviews
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108037 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411 |