Sex Chromosome Specialization and Degeneration in Mammals

@article{Graves2006SexCS,
  title={Sex Chromosome Specialization and Degeneration in Mammals},
  author={Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2006},
  volume={124},
  pages={901-914},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8379688}
}
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