Dosage-sensitive functions in embryonic development drove the survival of genes on sex-specific chromosomes in snakes, birds, and mammals

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Survivors are not ancestrally specialized for expression in reproductive tract tissues. Coefficients for testis- and ovary-specific expression (circles) and 95% confidence intervals (bars) from logistic regression models of gene survival on sex-specific chromosomes in mammals (blue), birds (pink), and snakes (purple), conditional on breadth of expression. (ns) P > 0.05. After controlling for expression breadth, the regression coefficient is not significantly different from 0 for any tissue from any species.

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  1. Genome Res. 31: 198-210

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