Human Y Chromosome, Sex Determination, and Spermatogenesis—A Feminist View1

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

doi:10.1043/0006-3363(2000)063<0668:HYCSDA>2.0.CO;2

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Jennifer A. Marshall Graves^1,*

¹Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3083, Australia

^*Correspondence: Jennifer M. Graves, Department of Genetics, Building NW7, La Trobe University, Kingsbury Drive, Bundoora, Melbourne, Victoria 3093, Australia. FAX: 613 9479 2480; j.graves@gen.latrobe.edu.au

Abstract

In this review I want to argue that, far from being a macho entity with an all-powerful role in male development, the human Y chromosome is a “wimp.” It is merely a relic of the X chromosome, and most or all of the genes it bears—including the genes that determine sex and control spermatogenesis—are relics of genes on the X chromosome that have other functions altogether.

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Jennifer A. Marshall Graves "Human Y Chromosome, Sex Determination, and Spermatogenesis—A Feminist View," Biology of Reproduction 63(3), 668-676, (1 September 2000). https://doi.org/10.1043/0006-3363(2000)063<0668:HYCSDA>2.0.CO;2

Published: 1 September 2000

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