ZZ/ZW Sex Chromosomes in the Endemic Puerto Rican Leaf-Toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus wirshingi)

@article{Nielsen2019ZZZWSC,
  title={ZZ/ZW Sex Chromosomes in the Endemic Puerto Rican Leaf-Toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus wirshingi)},
  author={Stuart V. Nielsen and Juan Diego Daza and Brendan J. Pinto and Tony Gamble},
  journal={Cytogenetic and Genome Research},
  year={2019},
  volume={157},
  pages={89 - 97},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59305638}
}
RADseq is used to identify a ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system in P. wirshingi, and it is shown that 4 of the female-specific markers contain fragments of genes found on the avian Z and discuss homology with P.W. wIRshingi.
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