The house fly Y Chromosome is young and minimally differentiated from its ancient X Chromosome partner

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Figure 6.
Figure 6.

There is elevated heterozygosity on the third chromosome in IIIM males, but not on the X Chromosome in XY males. Box plots show the distribution of the percentage of heterozygous SNPs within genes on each chromosome in either XY aabys males relative to XX aabys females using genomic DNA sequences (A) or IIIM males relative to XY males using RNA-seq data (B). Values >50% indicate elevated heterozygosity in XY males or IIIM males. The median across all autosomes is indicated by a dashed line.

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  1. Genome Res. 27: 1417-1426

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