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Diverse stages of sex-chromosome differentiation in tinamid birds: evidence from crossover analysis in Eudromia elegans and Crypturellus tataupa.
Genetica - 1 Jun 2011
Pigozzi María Inés
Abstract excerpt
All extant birds share the same sex-chromosome system: ZZ males and ZW females with striking differences in the stages of sex-chromosome differentiation between the primitive palaeognathus ratites and the large majority of avian species grouped within neognaths. Evolutionarily close to ratites is the neotropical order Tinamiformes that has been scarcely explored regarding their ZW pair morphology and...
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