Reversal of an ancient sex chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila

Beatriz Vicoso and Doris Bachtrog ()
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Beatriz Vicoso: Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California Berkeley
Doris Bachtrog: Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California Berkeley

Nature, 2013, vol. 499, issue 7458, 332-335

Abstract: An autosomal chromosome pair in Drosophila, the dot chromosome, is shown to have evolved from an ancestral X chromosome: these findings explain several previously puzzling aspects of dot chromosome biology and challenge the view that differentiated sex chromosomes represent a terminal evolutionary stage.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/nature12235

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