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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Poorly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes are widely shared across skink radiation.

Alexander Kostmann, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Michail Rovatsos

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  14. Environmental (and Random?) Sex Determination in Endangered and Invasive Phelsuma Geckos.Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexander KostmannDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Lukáš KratochvílDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Michail RovatsosDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Differentiated sex chromosomes are believed to be evolutionarily stable, while poorly differentiated sex chromosomes are considered to be prone to turnovers. With around 1700 currently known species forming

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LizardsSex ChromosomesAnimalsPhylogenySex Determination AnalysisSex Determination ProcessesSnakesgenomemolecular sexingqPCRsex chromosomessex determinationvertebrates

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PMID33468012
PMCPMC7893288

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