Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewed
The scorpionfly (Panorpa cognata) genome highlights conserved and derived features of the peculiar dipteran X chromosome.
Clémentine Lasne, Marwan Elkrewi, Melissa A. Toups…·Beatriz Viçoso
This study compares the X chromosome of the scorpionfly Panorpa cognata to dipteran species, finding conserved gene content but differences in size and gene number, suggesting ancestral X chromosome shrinkage in Diptera.
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