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Structure and decay of a proto-Y region in Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus.
BMC genomics - 17 Nov 2014
Gammerdinger William J, Conte Matthew A, Acquah Enoch A, Roberts Reade B, Kocher Thomas D
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BACKGROUND: Sex-determination genes drive the evolution of adjacent chromosomal regions. Sexually antagonistic selection favors the accumulation of inversions that reduce recombination in regions adjacent to the sex-determination gene. Once established, the clonal inheritance of sex-linked inversions leads to the accumulation of deleterious alleles, repetitive elements and a gradual decay of sex-linked genes....
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