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A new plant sex-linked gene with high sequence diversity and possible introgression of the X copy.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2011
Kaiser V B, Bergero R, Charlesworth D
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We describe patterns of DNA sequence diversity in a newly identified sex-linked gene, SlX9/SlY9, in Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae). The copies on both sex chromosomes seem to be functional, and each maps close to the respective X- and Y-linked copy of another sex-linked gene pair, SlCypX/SlCypY. The Y-linked copy has low diversity, similar to what has been found for several other Y-linked genes in S....
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