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Chromatin structural changes around satellite repeats on the female sex chromosome in Schistosoma mansoni and their possible role in sex chromosome emergence

Creator:

Lepesant, Julie M. J., Cosseau, Celine, Boissier, Jerome, Freitag, Michael, Portela, Julien, Climent, Deborah, Perrin, Cecile, Zerlotini, Adhemar, and Grunau, Christoph

Abstract:

Background: In the leuphotrochozoan parasitic platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni, male individuals are homogametic (ZZ) whereas females are heterogametic (ZW). To elucidate the mechanisms that led to the emergence of sex chromosomes, we compared the genomic sequence and the chromatin structure of male and female individuals. As for many eukaryotes, the lower...

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