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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Main Authors: Skaletsky, Helen, Cho, Ting-Jan, Brown, Laura, Locke, Devin, Chen, Nancy, Galkina, Svetlana, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Koutseva, Natalia, Graves, Tina, Kremitzki, Colin, Warren, Wesley C, Clark, Andrew G, Gaginskaya, Elena, Wilson, Richard K, Bellott, Daniel W., Page, David C
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116793
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411