Island-specific evolution of a sex-primed autosome in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea
Longhua Guo, Joshua S. Bloom, Daniel Dols-Serrate, Eyal Ben‐David, Olga T. Schubert, Kaiya Kazuma, Katarina Ho, Yubao Wei, Daniel H. W. Leighton, James Boocock, Tzitziki Lemus, Marta Riutort, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Leonid Kruglyak
The paper identifies chromosome 1 in Schmidtea mediterranea as a sex-primed autosome through genomic analysis showing restricted recombination and sex-specific gene expression.
bioRxiv · May 24, 2021 · PreprintGenetics