Molecular biology and evolution
Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus.
Philip C Bentz, Sarah B Carey, Francesco Mercati, Haley Hale, Valentina Ricciardi, Francesco Sunseri, Alex Harkess, Jim Leebens-Mack
Published: 202610.1093/molbev/msag003
Abstract
The relatively young and repeated evolutionary origins of dioecy (separate sexes) in flowering plants enable investigation of molecular dynamics occurring at the earliest stages of sex chromosome evolution. With two independently young origins of dio…
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