The multiple sex chromosomes of platypus and echidna are not completely identical and several share homology with the avian Z
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* Corresponding author: Willem Rens wr203@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
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
Genome Biology 2007, 8:R243 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-11-r243
Published: 16 November 2007Additional files
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Gene assignments to platypus contigs and platypus chromosomes, together with human and chicken locations.
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