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Curr Biol. 2011 Sep 27;21(18):R685-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.027.

Plant sex chromosomes: a non-degenerated Y?.

Current biology : CB

Doris Bachtrog

Affiliations

  1. Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 9470, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 21959153 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.027

Abstract

Animal Y chromosomes have undergone chromosome-wide degeneration in response to a lack of recombination, and ancient Ys contain few functional genes. Recent research suggests that plant Y chromosomes may evolve differently and retain most of their ancestral genes.

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