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Low rates of X-Y recombination, not turnovers, account for homomorphic sex chromosomes in several diploid species of Palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup).
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Mar 2013
Stöck M, Savary R, Betto-Colliard C, Biollay S, Jourdan-Pineau H, Perrin N
Abstract excerpt
Contrasting with birds and mammals, most ectothermic vertebrates present homomorphic sex chromosomes, which might be due either to a high turnover rate or to occasional X-Y recombination. We tested these two hypotheses in a group of Palearctic green toads that diverged some 3.3 million years ago....
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