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SUBMITTER: Branco S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5502610 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Branco Sara S Badouin Hélène H Rodríguez de la Vega Ricardo C RC Gouzy Jérôme J Carpentier Fantin F Aguileta Gabriela G Siguenza Sophie S Brandenburg Jean-Tristan JT Coelho Marco A MA Hood Michael E ME Giraud Tatiana T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170619 27
Sex chromosomes can display successive steps of recombination suppression known as "evolutionary strata," which are thought to result from the successive linkage of sexually antagonistic genes to sex-determining genes. However, there is little evidence to support this explanation. Here we investigate whether evolutionary strata can evolve without sexual antagonism using fungi that display suppressed recombination extending beyond loci determining mating compatibility despite lack of male/female ...[more]