Rapid Y degeneration and dosage compensation in plant sex chromosomes
The nonrecombining regions of animal Y chromosomes are known to undergo genetic degeneration, but previous work has failed to reveal large-scale gene degeneration on plant Y chromosomes. Here, we uncover rapid and extensive degeneration of Y-linked genes in a plant species, Silene latifolia, that ev...
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National Academy of Sciences
2015
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