Dosage-sensitive functions in embryonic development drove the survival of genes on sex-specific chromosomes in snakes, birds, and mammals
© 2021 Bellott and Page. Different ancestral autosomes independently evolved into sex chromosomes in snakes, birds, and mammals. In snakes and birds, females are ZW and males are ZZ; in mammals, females are XX and males are XY. Although X and Z Chromosomes retain nearly all ancestral genes, sex-spec...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133469 |