Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa
Sex-specific chromosomes, like the W of most female birds and the Y of male mammals, usually have lost most genes owing to a lack of recombination. We analyze newly available genomes of 17 bird species representing the avian phylogenetic range, and find that more than half of them do not have as ful...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7987 |