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Extreme population structure and high interspecific divergence of the Silene Y chromosome.
Genetics - 1 Oct 2005
Ironside Joseph E, Filatov Dmitry A
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have demonstrated that the diversity of Y-linked genes is substantially lower than that of their X-linked homologs in the plant Silene latifolia. This difference has been attributed to selective sweeps, Muller's ratchet, and background selection, processes that are predicted to severely affect the evolution of the nonrecombining Y chromosome. We studied the DNA diversity of a noncoding region of...
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