Chromosomal Gene Movements Reflect the Recent Origin and Biology of Therian Sex Chromosomes
Chromosomal Gene Movements Reflect the Recent Origin and Biology of Therian Sex Chromosomes
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United States: Public Library of Science
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Mammalian sex chromosomes stem from ancestral autosomes and have substantially differentiated. It was shown that X-linked genes have generated duplicate intronless gene copies (retrogenes) on autosomes due to this differentiation. However, the precise driving forces for this out-of-X gene "movement" and its evolutionary onset are not known. Based o...
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Chromosomal Gene Movements Reflect the Recent Origin and Biology of Therian Sex Chromosomes
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1292065518
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1292065518
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1545-7885,1544-9173
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1545-7885
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10.1371/journal.pbio.0060080
