Evolution of the mammalian Y chromosome
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Graves, Jennifer A. Marshall
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In mammals, male sex determination, as well as spermatogenesis, is controlled by genes on the Y chromosome. Evolutionary comparisons may be used to detect and test candidate genes for these functions, under the hypothesis that the rapid evolution of the mammalian Y chromosome causes it to contain fe