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TWiEVO 35: Strawberry sex chromosomes forever

  • September 21, 2018
  • Tagged as: Dioecy, diversity, evolution, fertilization, genome, Homoeologs, Homomorphic, jumping sex genes, octoploid, parasites, reproduction, sex, sex chromosome, strawberry

Nels and Vincent reveal that female-specific DNA associated with sex in strawberries has repeatedly changed its genomic location, possibly linking new genes with sex.

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