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Genomic degradation of a young Y chromosome in Drosophila miranda

BACKGROUND: Y chromosomes are derived from ordinary autosomes and degenerate because of a lack of recombination. Well-studied Y chromosomes only have few of their original genes left and contain little information about their evolutionary origin. Here, we take advantage of the recently formed neo-Y...

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Autores principales: Bachtrog, Doris, Hom, Emily, Wong, Karen M, Maside, Xulio, de Jong, Pieter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18269752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r30