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Retrogenes Reveal the Direction of Sex-Chromosome Evolution in Mosquitoes

The mosquito Anopheles gambiae has heteromorphic sex chromosomes, while the mosquito Aedes aegypti has homomorphic sex chromosomes. We use retrotransposed gene duplicates to show an excess of movement off the An. gambiae X chromosome only after the split with Ae. aegypti, suggesting that their ances...

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Main Authors: Toups, Melissa A., Hahn, Matthew W.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2010
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954464/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20660646
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.110.118794
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