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Feminizing chicks: a model for avian sex determination based on titration of Hint enzyme activity and the predicted structure of an Asw-Hint heterodimer
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Feminizing chicks: a model for avian sex determination based on titration of Hint enzyme activity and the predicted structure of an Asw-Hint heterodimer

Helen C Pace and Charles Brenner
Genome Biology, Vol.4(3), pp.R18-R18
2003
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-3-r18
PMID: 12620103
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https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2003-4-3-r18View
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Abstract

In birds females are heterogametic with a ZW karyotype, while males are ZZ homogametes but the molecular basis for sexual differentiation in birds is unknown. Genomic and expression data suggest that Asw may feminize chicks, dominantly interfering with Hint function by heterodimerization.
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