Non-homologous sex chromosomes of birds and snakes share repetitive sequences
Non-homologous sex chromosomes of birds and snakes share repetitive sequences
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Dordrecht: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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English
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Snake sex chromosomes provided Susumo Ohno with the material on which he based his theory of how sex chromosomes differentiate from autosomal pairs. Like birds, snakes have a ZZ male/ZW female sex chromosome system, in which the snake Z is a macrochromosome much the same size as the bird Z. However, the gene content shows clearly that the snake and...
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Non-homologous sex chromosomes of birds and snakes share repetitive sequences
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_954625537
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_954625537
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0967-3849
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1573-6849
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10.1007/s10577-010-9152-9
