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JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 1182-1188Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01278.x
Keywords
evolutionary decay; genetic sex determination; Hyla arborea; proto-Y chromosomes; recombination
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Several hypotheses have been elaborated to account for the evolutionary decay commonly observed in full-fledged Y chromosomes. Enhanced drift, background selection and selective sweeps, which are expected to result from reduced recombination, may all share responsibilities in the initial decay of proto-Y chromosomes, but little empirical information has been gathered so far. Here we take advantage of three markers that amplify on both of the morphologically undifferentiated sex chromosomes of the European tree frog (Hyla arborea) to show that recombination is suppressed in males (the heterogametic sex) but not in females. Accordingly, genetic variability is reduced on the Y, but in a way that can be accounted for by merely the number of chromosome copies per breeding pair, without the need to invoke background selection or selective sweeps.
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