Sharma T, Raman R. Preferential late replication of one of the two morphologically distinguishable X-chromosomes in a female muntjac.
EXPERIENTIA 1977;
33:1141-2. [PMID:
891854 DOI:
10.1007/bf01922289]
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Abstract
In a female barking deer, Muntiacus muntjak, whose 2 X-chromosomes are mutually distinguishable from each other, one X has been found to be late replicating in 57.8% cells compared to the other which is late replicating in 42.2% cells. These data are suggestive of preferential inactivation of one X-chromosome. These findings have been discussed in the light of Lyon's hypothesis of random X-inactivation in eutherian mammals.
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