Evolution of the pseudoautosomal boundary in Old World monkeys and great apes.

doi:10.1016/0092-8674(90)90501-5

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Evolution of the pseudoautosomal boundary in Old World monkeys and great apes.

Cell - 30 Nov 1990

Ellis N, Yen P, Neiswanger K, Shapiro L J, Goodfellow P N

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Mammalian sex chromosomes are divided into sex-specific and pseudoautosomal regions. Sequences in the pseudoautosomal region recombine between the sex chromosomes; the sex-specific sequences normally do not. The interface between sex-specific and pseudoautosomal sequences is the pseudoautosomal b...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Cercopithecidae
Chromosome Mapping
Cloning, Molecular
DNA
Genetic Variation
Gorilla gorilla
Haplorhini
Hominidae
Humans
Macaca
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Papio
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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