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XX/XY System of Sex Determination in the Geophilomorph Centipede Strigamia maritima

We show that the geophilomorph centipede Strigamia maritima possesses an XX/XY system of sex chromosomes, with males being the heterogametic sex. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of sex chromosomes in any geophilomorph centipede. Using the recently assembled Strigamia genome sequence, we...

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Autores principales: Green, Jack E., Dalíková, Martina, Sahara, Ken, Marec, František, Akam, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769173/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26919730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150292