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

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...

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Main Authors: Kultima Kim, Dencker Lennart, Brunström Björn, Hultin-Rosenberg Lina, Ellegren Hans, Scholz Birger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-09-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/40