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Accelerated Adaptive Evolution on a Newly Formed X Chromosome

Sex chromosomes originated from ordinary autosomes, and their evolution is characterized by continuous gene loss from the ancestral Y chromosome. Here, we document a new feature of sex chromosome evolution: bursts of adaptive fixations on a newly formed X chromosome. Taking advantage of the recently...

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Hauptverfasser: Bachtrog, Doris, Jensen, Jeffrey D, Zhang, Zhi
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2009
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19402745
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000082
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