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The chicken Z chromosome is enriched for genes with preferential expression in ovarian somatic cells.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Feb 2010
Mořkovský Libor, Storchová Radka, Plachý Jiří, Ivánek Robert, Divina Petr, Hejnar Jiří
Abstract excerpt
Theory predicts that sexually antagonistic mutations will be over- or under-represented on the X and Z chromosomes, depending on their average dominance coefficients. However, as little is known about the dominance coefficients for new mutations, the effect of sexually antagonistic selection is difficult to predict. To elucidate the role of sexually antagonistic selection in the evolution of Z chromosome gene...
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