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SUBMITTER: Wright AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4278454 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright Alison E AE Harrison Peter W PW Montgomery Stephen H SH Pointer Marie A MA Mank Judith E JE
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20140829 11
We used a comparative approach spanning three species and 90 million years to study the evolutionary history of the avian sex chromosomes. Using whole transcriptomes, we assembled the largest cross-species dataset of W-linked coding content to date. Our results show that recombination suppression in large portions of the avian sex chromosomes has evolved independently, and that long-term sex chromosome divergence is consistent with repeated and independent inversions spreading progressively to r ...[more]