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The multiple sex chromosomes of platypus and echidna are not completely identical and several share homology with the avian Z

Willem Rens1*, Patricia CM O'Brien1, Frank Grützner2, Oliver Clarke1, Daria Graphodatskaya1, Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush2, Vladimir A Trifonov1,3, Helen Skelton1, Mary C Wallis1, Steve Johnston4, Frederic Veyrunes1, Jennifer AM Graves5 and Malcolm A Ferguson-Smith1

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 OES, UK

2 School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia

3 Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, 630090, Novosobirsk, Russia

4 School of Animal Sciences, Currumbin Sanctuary, Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

5 Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R243 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-11-r243

Published: 16 November 2007

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Gene assignments to platypus contigs and platypus chromosomes, together with human and chicken locations.

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