Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

The human Y chromosome began to evolve from an autosome hundreds of millions of years ago, acquiring a sex-determining function and undergoing a series of inversions that suppressed crossing over with the X chromosome1,2. Little is known about the Y chromosome’s recent evolution because only the hum...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hughes, Jennifer F., Skaletsky, Helen, Pyntikova, Tatyana, Graves, Tina A., van Daalen, Saskia K. M., Minx, Patrick J., Fulton, Robert S., McGrath, Sean D., Locke, Devin P., Friedman, Cynthia, Trask, Barbara J., Mardis, Elaine R., Warren, Wesley C., Repping, Sjoerd, Rozen, Steve, Wilson, Richard K., Page, David C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653425/

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653425/

Similar Items