Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
Rewinding the ratchet: rare recombination locally rescues neo-W degeneration and generates plateaus of sex-chromosome divergence
Thomas Decroly, Roger Vila, Konrad Lohse, Alexander Mackintosh
The paper studies neo-sex chromosome evolution in butterflies, finding that rare recombination can reverse degradation and create divergence plateaus on neo-W chromosomes.
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