Discovery of tetraploidy in a mammal

Bickham, J. W. ; Honeycutt, R. L. ; Ojeda, R. A. ; Köhler, N. ; Gallardo, Milton H.

[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd.
Published 1999
ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Polyploidy, or having more than a pair of each type of chromosome, is considered to be unlikely in mammals because it would disrupt the mechanism of dosage compensation that normally inactivates one X chromosome in females. Also, any imbalance in chromosome number should affect the normal ...
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Electronic Resource
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