XX/XY System of Sex Determination in the Geophilomorph Centipede Strigamia maritima.

XX/XY System of Sex Determination in the Geophilomorph Centipede Strigamia maritima.

We show that the geophilomorph centipede Strigamia maritima possesses an XX/XY system of sex chromosomes, with males being the heterogametic sex. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of sex chromosomes in any geophilomorph centipede. Using the recently assembled Strigamia genome sequence, we...

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Main Authors: Jack E Green, Martina Dalíková, Ken Sahara, František Marec, Michael Akam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4769173?pdf=render

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