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Low variability in a Y-linked plant gene and its implications for Y-chromosome evolution.
Nature - 23 Mar 2000
Filatov D A, Monéger F, Negrutiu I, Charlesworth D
Abstract excerpt
Sex chromosomes have evolved independently in several different groups of organisms, but they share common features, including genetic degeneration of the Y chromosome. Suppression of recombination between ancestral proto-X and proto-Y chromosomes is thought to have led to their gradual divergence, and to degeneration of the Y chromosome, but the evolutionary forces responsible are unknown. In non-recombining Y...
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