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Transposable elements and early evolution of sex chromosomes in fish.
Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology - 1 Sept 2015
Chalopin Domitille, Volff Jean-Nicolas, Galiana Delphine, Anderson Jennifer L, Schartl Manfred
Abstract excerpt
In many organisms, the sex chromosome pair can be recognized due to heteromorphy; the Y and W chromosomes have often lost many genes due to the absence of recombination during meiosis and are frequently heterochromatic. Repetitive sequences are found at a high proportion on such heterochromatic sex chromosomes and the evolution and emergence of sex chromosomes has been connected to the dynamics of repeats and...
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