Thomas Lenormand (@handle.invalid)

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

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A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation Sex chromosomes are involved in three major empirical patterns: (i) Y (or W) chromosomes are often nonrecombining and degenerate; (ii) heterogametic offspring (XY or ZW) from interspecific crosses are... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9032