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Oct 2026
High-throughput sequencing reshapes chicken sex determination and differentiation: From candidate genes to hierarchical regulatory networks.
Chicken sex determination and differentiation have long lacked a highly integrated and hierarchically defined framework comparable to the mammalian SRY-SOX9 paradigm. This is partly attributable to avian-specific biological features, including the ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system, incomplete dosage compensation, and cell-au...
Xiao-Qian Lv, Xu Tan, Qiang Wei et al.
· Poultry Science · 0 citations