A willow sex chromosome reveals convergent evolution of complex palindromic repeats

A willow sex chromosome reveals convergent evolution of complex palindromic repeats

Abstract Background Sex chromosomes have arisen independently in a wide variety of species, yet they share common characteristics, including the presence of suppressed recombination surrounding sex determination loci. Mammalian sex chromosomes contain multiple palindromic repeats across the non-reco...

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Main Authors: Ran Zhou, David Macaya-Sanz, Craig H. Carlson, Jeremy Schmutz, Jerry W. Jenkins, David Kudrna, Aditi Sharma, Laura Sandor, Shengqiang Shu, Kerrie Barry, Gerald A. Tuskan, Tao Ma, Jianquan Liu, Matthew Olson, Lawrence B. Smart, Stephen P. DiFazio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:Genome Biology
Subjects:
Sex
Gene conversion
W chromosome
Palindrome
Genome
Salix
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-1952-4

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-1952-4

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