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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Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-09-01
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Series: | BMC Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/40 |