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Transitions Between Sex-Determining Systems in Reptiles and Amphibians
2 Mar 2011
Abstract excerpt
Important technological advances in genomics are driving a new understanding of the evolution of sex determination in vertebrates. In particular, comparative chromosome mapping in reptiles has shown an intriguing distribution of homology in sex chromosomes across reptile groups. When this new understanding is combined with the widespread distribution of genetic and temperature-dependent sex-determination...
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