Heterochiasmy and the establishment of gsdf as a novel sex determining gene in Atlantic halibut.

Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) has a X/Y genetic sex determination system, but the sex determining factor is not known. We produced a high-quality genome assembly from a male and identified parts of chromosome 13 as the Y chromosome due to sequence divergence between sexes and segregat...

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Main Authors: Rolf Brudvik Edvardsen, Ola Wallerman, Tomasz Furmanek, Lene Kleppe, Patric Jern, Andreas Wallberg, Erik Kjærner-Semb, Stig Mæhle, Sara Karolina Olausson, Elisabeth Sundström, Torstein Harboe, Ragnfrid Mangor-Jensen, Margareth Møgster, Prescilla Perrichon, Birgitta Norberg, Carl-Johan Rubin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010011