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Comment
. 2016 Aug;32(8):585-587.
doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.05.008. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

Genomic Dark Matter Illuminated: Anopheles Y Chromosomes

Seth N Redmond  1 , Daniel E Neafsey  2
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Genomic Dark Matter Illuminated: Anopheles Y Chromosomes

Seth N Redmond et al. Trends Parasitol. 2016 Aug.

Abstract

Hall et al. have strategically used long-read sequencing technology to characterize the structure and highly repetitive content of the Y chromosome in Anopheles malaria mosquitoes. Their work confirms that this important but elusive heterochromatic sex chromosome is evolving extremely rapidly and harbors a remarkably small number of genes.

Keywords: evolution.; genomes; malaria; mosquitoes; sex chromosomes.

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  • Radical remodeling of the Y chromosome in a recent radiation of malaria mosquitoes.
    Hall AB, Papathanos PA, Sharma A, Cheng C, Akbari OS, Assour L, Bergman NH, Cagnetti A, Crisanti A, Dottorini T, Fiorentini E, Galizi R, Hnath J, Jiang X, Koren S, Nolan T, Radune D, Sharakhova MV, Steele A, Timoshevskiy VA, Windbichler N, Zhang S, Hahn MW, Phillippy AM, Emrich SJ, Sharakhov IV, Tu ZJ, Besansky NJ. Hall AB, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Apr 12;113(15):E2114-23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525164113. Epub 2016 Mar 29. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 27035980 Free PMC article.

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