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Haploid chromosomes in molecular ecology: lessons from the human Y.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2001
Hurles M E, Jobling M A
Abstract excerpt
We review the potential use of haploid chromosomes in molecular ecology, using recent work on the human Y chromosome as a paradigm. Chromosomal sex-determination systems, and hence constitutively haploid chromosomes, which escape from recombination over much of their length, have evolved multiple times in the animal kingdom. In mammals, where males are the heterogametic sex, the patrilineal Y chromosome...
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