Avian W and mammalian Y chromosomes convergently retained dosage-sensitive regulators
After birds diverged from mammals, different ancestral autosomes evolved into sex chromosomes in each lineage. In birds, females are ZW and males are ZZ, but in mammals females are XX and males are XY. We sequenced the chicken W chromosome, compared its gene content with our reconstruction of the an...
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Springer Nature
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116793 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411 |