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Searching for signatures of sexually antagonistic selection on stickleback sex chromosomes.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 1 Aug 2022
Dagilis Andrius J, Sardell Jason M, Josephson Matthew P, Su Yiheng, Kirkpatrick Mark, Peichel Catherine L
Abstract excerpt
Intralocus sexually antagonistic selection occurs when an allele is beneficial to one sex but detrimental to the other. This form of selection is thought to be key to the evolution of sex chromosomes but is hard to detect. Here we perform an analysis of phased young sex chromosomes to look for signals of sexually antagonistic selection in the Japan Sea stickleback (Gasterosteus nipponicus). Phasing allows us to...
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