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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 24, Issue 10, Pages 478-481Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2008.07.006
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It has been shown that selective pressure to compensate for the silencing of the sex chromosomes during male meiosis resulted in many X-linked genes being duplicated as functional retrogenes on autosomes. The silencing of male sex chromosomes was probably stratified during evolution, in accordance with their stratified diversification. Here I show that the timing of the retrocopying events is associated with the timing of the X-Y differentiation of the region of the X chromosome housing the parental copy of the gene.
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