Repeated translocation of a gene cassette drives sex-chromosome turnover in strawberries.
Turnovers of sex-determining systems represent important diversifying forces across eukaryotes. Shifts in sex chromosomes-but conservation of the master sex-determining genes-characterize distantly related animal lineages. Yet in plants, in which separate sexes have evolved repeatedly and sex chromo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-08-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6128632?pdf=render |