The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities

Peona, V; Palacios-Gimenez, OM; Blommaert, J; Liu, J; Haryoko, T; Jonsson, KA; Irestedt, M; Zhou, Q; Jern, P; Suh, A

Peona, V (corresponding author), Uppsala Univ, Dept Organismal Biol Systemat Biol, Uppsala, Sweden.

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2021; 376 (1833):

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 ge......

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