Evolutionary BiologyNature Ecology & EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes
Josué Barrera‐Redondo, Agnieszka P. Lipinska, Pengfei Liu…·Susana M. Coelho
The paper analyzes brown algal genomes to trace the origin and evolution of U/V sex chromosomes, revealing gene gain-driven evolution and the demise of these systems through hermaphroditism and gene hierarchy shifts.
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