The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0186
Abstract: It is a broadly observed pattern that the non-recombining regions of sex-limited chromosomes (Y and W) accumulate more repeats than the rest of the genome, even in species like birds with a low genome-wide repeat… read more here.
Keywords: avian chromosome; female biased; endogenous retroviruses; sex ... See more keywords