title: Plant sex chromosomes: a non-degenerated Y?
abstract: Animal Y chromosomes have undergone chromosome-wide degeneration in response to a lack of recombination, and ancient Ys contain few functional genes. Recent research suggests that plant Y chromosomes may evolve differently and retain most of their ancestral genes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 9470, USA. dbachtrog@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Doris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bachtrog
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods*; D029751:Silene / Q000235:genetics*