A gene deriving from the ancestral sex chromosomes was lost from the X and retained on the Y chromosome in eutherian mammals

Abstract Background The mammalian X and Y chromosomes originated from a pair of ordinary autosomes. Over the past ~180 million years, the X and Y have become highly differentiated and now only recombine with each other within a short pseudoautosomal region. While the X chromosome broadly preserved i...

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發表在:	BMC Biology
Main Authors:	Jennifer F. Hughes, Helen Skaletsky, Peter K. Nicholls, Alexis Drake, Tatyana Pyntikova, Ting-Jan Cho, Daniel W. Bellott, David C. Page
格式:	Article
語言:	英语
出版:	BMC 2022-06-01
主題:	Y chromosome Sex chromosomes Sex ratio Trypsin-like serine protease
在線閱讀:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01338-8