Long-term persistence of supernumerary B chromosomes in multiple species of Astyanax fish.
Duílio Mazzoni Zerbinato de Andrade SilvaFrancisco J Ruiz-RuanoRicardo UtsunomiaMaría Martín-PeciñaJonathan Pena CastroPaula Paccielli FreireRobson Francisco CarvalhoDiogo Teruo HashimotoAlexander SuhClaudio OliveiraFabio Porto-ForestiRoberto Ferreira ArtoniFausto ForestiJuan Pedro M CamachoPublished in: BMC biology (2021)
Taken together, our results demonstrate the long-term survival of B chromosomes despite their lack of regular pairing and segregation during meiosis and that they can endure episodes of population divergence leading to species formation.
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