Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition

Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition

In birds, as in mammals, one pair of chromosomes differs between the sexes. In birds, males are ZZ and females ZW. In mammals, males are XY and females XX. Like the mammalian XY pair, the avian ZW pair is believed to have evolved from autosomes, with most change occurring in the chromosomes found in...

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Main Authors: Bellott, Daniel W., Skaletsky, Helen, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Mardis, Elaine R., Graves, Tina, Kremitzki, Colin, Brown, Laura G., Rozen, Steve, Warren, Wesley C., Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66578
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66578
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9920-3411

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