The mutation rate and the age of the sex chromosomes in Silene latifolia
Many aspects of sex chromosome evolution are common to both plants and animals [1], but the process of Y chromosome degeneration, where genes on the Y become non-functional over time, may be much slower in plants due to purifying selection against deleterious mutations in the haploid gametophyte [2,...
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Cell Press
2018
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