Achilles, a New Family of Transcriptionally Active Retrotransposons from the Olive Fruit Fly, with Y Chromosome Preferential Distribution.

Sex chromosomes have many unusual features relative to autosomes. The in depth exploration of their structure will improve our understanding of their origin and divergence (degeneration) as well as the evolution of genetic sex determination pathways which, most often are attributed to them. In Tephr...

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Main Authors: Konstantina T Tsoumani, Elena Drosopoulou, Kostas Bourtzis, Aggeliki Gariou-Papalexiou, Penelope Mavragani-Tsipidou, Antigone Zacharopoulou, Kostas D Mathiopoulos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4580426?pdf=render