Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves; Catherine L. Peichel

doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205

Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves^*, Catherine L. Peichel

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Abstract

The same candidate genes and the same autosomes are repeatedly used as sex chromosomes in vertebrates. Are these systems identical by descent, or are some genes or chromosomes intrinsically better at triggering the first steps of sex determination?

Original language	English
Article number	205
Journal	Genome Biology
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2010

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