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Schistosome W-Linked Genes Inform Temporal Dynamics of Sex Chromosome Evolution and Suggest Candidate for Sex Determination

Schistosomes, the human parasites responsible for snail fever, are female-heterogametic. Different parts of their ZW sex chromosomes have stopped recombining in distinct lineages, creating “evolutionary strata” of various ages. Although the Z-chromosome is well characterized at the genomic and molec...

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Autores principales: Elkrewi, Marwan, Moldovan, Mikhail A, Picard, Marion A L, Vicoso, Beatriz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8662593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34146097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab178