Mammalian Y chromosomes retain widely expressed dosage-sensitive regulators
The human X and Y chromosomes evolved from an ordinary pair of autosomes, but millions of years ago genetic decay ravaged the Y chromosome, and only three per cent of its ancestral genes survived. We reconstructed the evolution of the Y chromosome across eight mammals to identify biases in gene cont...
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Springer Nature
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116789 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411 |