A willow sex chromosome reveals convergent evolution of complex palindromic repeats.

Ran ZhouDavid Macaya-SanzCraig H CarlsonJeremy SchmutzJerry W JenkinsDavid KudrnaAditi SharmaLaura SandorShengqiang ShuKerrie BarryGerald A TuskanTao MaJianquan LiuMatthew OlsonLawrence B SmartStephen P DiFazio

Published in: Genome biology (2020)

The presence of palindromes in sex chromosomes of mammals and plants highlights the intrinsic importance of these features in adaptive evolution in the absence of recombination. Convergent evolution is driving both the independent establishment of sex chromosomes as well as their fine-scale sequence structure.

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