How sex chromosomes get trapped into nonrecombination
Suppression of recombination along the Y chromosome leads to its degeneration, so why does a process with such potentially deleterious consequences arise? In this issue of PLOS Biology, a new model reveals how and why this might be. We know that suppression of recombination leads to degeneration of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295974/?tool=EBI |
| Summary: | Suppression of recombination along the Y chromosome leads to its degeneration, so why does a process with such potentially deleterious consequences arise? In this issue of PLOS Biology, a new model reveals how and why this might be. We know that suppression of recombination leads to degeneration of Y chromosomes, but it has remained difficult to understand how features with such strong negative effects actually arise. This Primer explores a new model published in PLOS Biology that reveals how this could happen. |
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| ISSN: | 1544-9173 1545-7885 |