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SUBMITTER: Qiu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2981921 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiu Suo S Bergero Roberta R Forrest Alan A Kaiser Vera B VB Charlesworth Deborah D
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20100602 1698
The plant Silene latifolia has separate sexes and sex chromosomes, and is of interest for studying the early stages of sex chromosome evolution, especially the evolution of non-recombining regions on the Y chromosome. Hitch-hiking processes associated with ongoing genetic degeneration of the non-recombining Y chromosome are predicted to reduce Y-linked genes' effective population sizes, and S. latifolia Y-linked genes indeed have lower diversity than X-linked ones. We tested whether this represe ...[more]