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Sex-specific adaptation and genomic responses to Y chromosome presence in female reproductive and neural tissues.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 20 Dec 2017
Branco Alan T, Brito Rute M, Lemos Bernardo
Abstract excerpt
Y chromosomes typically harbour a small number of genes and an abundance of repetitive sequences. In Drosophila, the Y chromosome comprises multimegabase long segments of repetitive DNA and a handful of protein-coding genes. In mammals, the Y chromosome also harbours a disproportionally high abundance of repeats. Here, we built on a Drosophila melanogaster model in which the Y chromosome is decoupled from sexual...
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