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Novel Sex Chromosomes in 3 Cichlid Fishes from Lake Tanganyika.
The Journal of heredity - 27 Jun 2018
Gammerdinger William J, Conte Matthew A, Sandkam Benjamin A, Ziegelbecker Angelika, Koblmüller Stephan, Kocher Thomas D
Abstract excerpt
African cichlids are well known for their adaptive radiations, but it is now apparent that they also harbor an extraordinary diversity of sex chromosome systems. In this study, we sequenced pools of males and females from species in 3 different genera of cichlids from Lake Tanganyika. We then searched for regions that were differentiated following the patterns expected for sex chromosomes. We report 2 novel sex...
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