DNA methylation and genetic degeneration of the Y chromosome in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

Abstract Background S. latifolia is a model organism for the study of sex chromosome evolution in plants. Its sex chromosomes include large regions in which recombination became gradually suppressed. The regions tend to expand over time resulting in the formation of evolutionary strata. Non-recombin...

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Main Authors: José Luis Rodríguez Lorenzo, Roman Hobza, Boris Vyskot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4936-y