Faced with inequality: chicken do not have a general dosage compensation of sex-linked genes

BACKGROUND: The contrasting dose of sex chromosomes in males and females potentially introduces a large-scale imbalance in levels of gene expression between sexes, and between sex chromosomes and autosomes. In many organisms, dosage compensation has thus evolved to equalize sex-linked gene expressio...

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Main Authors: Ellegren, Hans, Hultin-Rosenberg, Lina, Brunström, Björn, Dencker, Lennart, Kultima, Kim, Scholz, Birger
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099419/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17883843
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-5-40
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