Journal article
Plant y chromosome degeneration is retarded by haploid purifying selection
- Abstract:
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Sex chromosomes evolved many times independently in many different organisms [1]. According to the currently accepted model, X and Y chromosomes evolve from a pair of autosomes via a series of inversions leading to stepwise expansion of a nonrecombining region on the Y chromosome (NRY) and the consequential degeneration of genes trapped in the NRY [2]. Our results suggest that plants represent an exception to this rule as a result of their unique life-cycle that includes alteration of diploid...
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- Journal:
- Current Biology
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 17
- Pages:
- 1475-1479
- Publication date:
- 2011-09-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0960-9822
- Source identifiers:
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179897
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- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:179897
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- pubs:179897
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2011
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