Evaluation of four methods to identify the homozygotic sex chromosome in small populations

Abstract Background Whole genomes are commonly assembled into a collection of scaffolds and often lack annotations of autosomes, sex chromosomes, and organelle genomes (i.e., mitochondrial and chloroplast). As these chromosome types differ in effective population size and can have highly disparate e...

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Main Authors: Charles Christian Riis Hansen, Kristen M. Westfall, Snæbjörn Pálsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-02-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08393-z