Widespread Recombination Suppression Facilitates Plant Sex Chromosome Evolution
J. L. Rifkin, F. L. Beaudry, Z. Humphries, B. I. Choudhury, S. C. H. Barrett, S. I. Wright
The paper investigates recombination suppression in a plant species with a young neo-sex chromosome, finding that low recombination rates preceded sex linkage.
bioRxiv · Feb 7, 2020Evolutionary Biology