Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

The same candidate genes and the same autosomes are repeatedly used as sex chromosomes in vertebrates. Are these systems identical by descent, or are some genes or chromosomes intrinsically better at triggering the first steps of sex determination?

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2010-04-30

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2010-11-4-205PMID 20441602PMCID 2884537
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