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Pleiotropic effects of Shy Girl underpin kiwifruit sex chromosome evolution

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Kiwifruit are a dioecious species with genetic sex determination that involves genes in a male-specific region of the Y chromosome. One Y-encoded sex determining gene, Shy Girl, also controls sexually dimorphic traits. This property can explain our observation of recurrent recent changes in these genes’ location in related species.

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Fig. 1: Model for recurrent neo-sex chromosome evolution in kiwifruit.

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This is a summary of: Akagi, T. et al. Recurrent neo-sex chromosome evolution in kiwifruit. Nat. Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01361-9 (2023).

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