Its a Trap?! Escape from an ancient, ancestral sex chromosome system and implication of Foxl2 as the putative primary sex determining gene in a lizard (Anguimorpha; Shinisauridae)
B. J. Pinto, S. V. Nielsen, K. A. Sullivan, A. Behere, S. E. Keating, M. van Schingen-Khan, T. Q. Nguyen, T. Ziegler, J. Pramuk, M. A. Wilson, T. Gamble
The paper identifies a novel ZW sex chromosome system on LG3 in Shinisaurus, with Foxl2 as a candidate primary sex determining gene.
bioRxiv · Jul 5, 2023 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology