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A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Apr 2010
Veyrunes Frederic, Chevret Pascale, Catalan Josette, Castiglia Riccardo, Watson Johan, Dobigny Gauthier, Robinson Terence J, Britton-Davidian Janice
Abstract excerpt
Therian mammals have an extremely conserved XX/XY sex determination system. A limited number of mammal species have, however, evolved to escape convention and present aberrant sex chromosome complements. In this study, we identified a new case of atypical sex determination in the African pygmy mo...
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