Large sex differences in chicken behavior and brain gene expression coincide with few differences in promoter DNA-methylation.

While behavioral sex differences have repeatedly been reported across taxa, the underlying epigenetic mechanisms in the brain are mostly lacking. Birds have previously shown to have only limited dosage compensation, leading to high sex bias of Z-chromosome gene expression. In chickens, a male hyper-...

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Main Authors: Daniel Nätt, Beatrix Agnvall, Per Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24782041/?tool=EBI