Genomic Dark Matter Illuminated: Anopheles Y Chromosomes.
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.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: sredmond@broadinstitute.org.
Seth N
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Redmond
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Daniel E
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Neafsey
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evolution.; genomes; malaria; mosquitoes; sex chromosomes