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Alternative patterns of sex chromosome differentiation in Aedes aegypti (L).
BMC genomics - 4 Dec 2017
Campbell Corey L, Dickson Laura B, Lozano-Fuentes Saul, Juneja Punita, Jiggins Francis M, Black William C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Some populations of West African Aedes aegypti, the dengue and zika vector, are reproductively incompatible; our earlier study showed that divergence and rearrangements of genes on chromosome 1, which bears the sex locus (M), may be involved. We also previously described a proposed cryptic subspecies SenAae (PK10, Senegal) that had many more high inter-sex FST genes on chromosome 1 than did Ae.aegypti...
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