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Neo-sex chromosomes in the black muntjac recapitulate incipient evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes.
Genome biology - 1 Jan 2008
Zhou Qi, Wang Jun, Huang Ling, Nie Wenhui, Wang Jinhuan, Liu Yan, Zhao Xiangyi, Yang Fengtang, Wang Wen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The regular mammalian X and Y chromosomes diverged from each other at least 166 to 148 million years ago, leaving few traces of their early evolution, including degeneration of the Y chromosome and evolution of dosage compensation. RESULTS: We studied the intriguing case of black muntjac, in which a recent X-autosome fusion and a subsequent large autosomal inversion within just the past 0.5 million...
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