Accelerated adaptive evolution on a newly formed X chromosome.

Sex chromosomes originated from ordinary autosomes, and their evolution is characterized by continuous gene loss from the ancestral Y chromosome. Here, we document a new feature of sex chromosome evolution: bursts of adaptive fixations on a newly formed X chromosome. Taking advantage of the recently...

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Autores principales: Doris Bachtrog, Jeffrey D Jensen, Zhi Zhang
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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