Retrogenes reveal the direction of sex-chromosome evolution in mosquitoes
Autor(es): Toups Melissa A,Hahn Matthew W
Resumo: The mosquito Anopheles gambiae has heteromorphic sex chromosomes, while the mosquito Aedes aegypti has homomorphic sex chromosomes. We use retrotransposed gene duplicates to show an excess of movement off the An. gambiae X chromosome only after the split with Ae. aegypti, suggesting that their ancestor had homomorphic sex chromosomes.
Imprenta: Genetics, v. 186, n. 2, p. 763-766, 2010
Identificador do objeto digital: 10.1534/genetics.110.118794
Descritores: Aedes aegypti - Cell ; Aedes aegypti - Genome ; Aedes aegypti - Pathogenesis
Data de publicação: 2010
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