A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs
oleh: Daniel L. Jeffries, Guillaume Lavanchy, Roberto Sermier, Michael J. Sredl, Ikuo Miura, Amaël Borzée, Lisa N. Barrow, Daniele Canestrelli, Pierre-André Crochet, Christophe Dufresnes, Jinzhong Fu, Wen-Juan Ma, Constantino Macías Garcia, Karim Ghali, Alfredo G. Nicieza, Ryan P. O’Donnell, Nicolas Rodrigues, Antonio Romano, Íñigo Martínez-Solano, Ilona Stepanyan, Silvia Zumbach, Alan Brelsford, Nicolas Perrin
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2018-10-01 |
Deskripsi
The evolutionary forces that favour transitions in sex chromosomes are not well understood. Here, Jeffries and colleagues show a very high rate of sex chromosome turnover in true frogs, which may be driven by rapid mutation-load accumulation due to the low recombination rate in males.