Meiosis reveals the early steps in the evolution of a neo-XY sex chromosome pair in the African pygmy mouse Mus minutoides
Ana Gil-Fernández, Paul A. Saunders, Marta Martín‐Ruíz, Marta Ribagorda, Pablo López‐Jiménez, Daniel L. Jeffries, María Teresa Parra, Alberto Viera, Julio S. Rufas, Nicolas Perrin, Frédéric Veyrunes, Jesús Page
This paper studies meiosis in the African pygmy mouse to reveal early steps in neo-XY sex chromosome differentiation, showing delayed synapsis, suppressed recombination, and unique metaphase-I associations in the neo-PAR.
PLoS Genetics · Nov 12, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics