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Insights into the evolutionary history of the X-linked sex reversal mutation in mus minutoides: clues from sequence analyses of the Y-linked Sry gene.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2013
Veyrunes F, Perez J, Paintsil S N C, Fichet-Calvet E, Britton-Davidian J
Abstract excerpt
The African pygmy mouse, Mus minutoides, is one of the very few mammal species that deviates from the classical mammalian XX/XY sex chromosome system by presenting a high proportion of fully fertile sex-reversed females. Since the still unknown sex reversal mutation is X-linked (X*), they are designated as X*Y females. Until now, X*Y females had only been identified in Southern Africa, but data were lacking for...
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