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. 2015 Oct 29;15:234. doi: 10.1186/s12862-015-0514-y

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Fig. 3 — Evolution of neo-sex chromosomes. In the early stages of sex-chromosome differentiation, a putative PAR with recombination activity might have been formed prior to the spread of recombination suppression. Red: ancestral X region; blue: ancestral Y region; pink: neo-X region diverged from neo-Y; sky blue: neo-Y region diverged from neo-X; white: undifferentiated neo-sex chromosomal region; yellow: putative PAR. MYA: million years ago