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Evolution of an unstable sex determination system in white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata)
Aoi Kudoh, Yu Sugihara, Kohtaro Iseki…·Ryohei Terauchi
The paper identifies the sex chromosome in white Guinea yam and describes a miRNA-mediated sex determination system involving a 1.2-Mb inversion and a W-specific microRNA gene.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.08.750133