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Reconstruction of female heterogamety from admixture of XX-XY and ZZ-ZW sex-chromosome systems within a frog species.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2018
Ogata Mitsuaki, Lambert Max, Ezaz Tariq, Miura Ikuo
Abstract excerpt
Sex-determining mechanisms change repeatedly throughout evolution, and it is difficult to track this continual process. The Japanese soil-frog Glandirana rugosa is a remarkable evolutionary witness to the ongoing process of the evolution of sex-determining modes. The two geographic groups, designated XY and Neo-ZW, have homologous sex chromosomes, yet display opposite types of sex chromosomes, XX-XY and ZZ-ZW,...
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