The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome

The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome

Several models have been proposed to explain the emergence of sex chromosomes. Here, through comparative genomics and mutant analysis, Harkess et al. show that linked but separate genes on the Y chromosome are responsible for sex determination in Asparagus, supporting a two-gene model for sex chromo...

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Main Authors: Alex Harkess, Jinsong Zhou, Chunyan Xu, John E. Bowers, Ron Van der Hulst, Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam, Francesco Mercati, Paolo Riccardi, Michael R. McKain, Atul Kakrana, Haibao Tang, Jeremy Ray, John Groenendijk, Siwaret Arikit, Sandra M. Mathioni, Mayumi Nakano, Hongyan Shan, Alexa Telgmann-Rauber, Akira Kanno, Zhen Yue, Haixin Chen, Wenqi Li, Yanling Chen, Xiangyang Xu, Yueping Zhang, Shaochun Luo, Helong Chen, Jianming Gao, Zichao Mao, J. Chris Pires, Meizhong Luo, Dave Kudrna, Rod A. Wing, Blake C. Meyers, Kexian Yi, Hongzhi Kong, Pierre Lavrijsen, Francesco Sunseri, Agostino Falavigna, Yin Ye, James H. Leebens-Mack, Guangyu Chen
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/baae0ecf91a047d1bb1eb18aa893f10a
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