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. 2019 May 24;9:7832. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44192-5

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Relative gene dose ratios between sexes in 45 species of lacertids and five species representing outgroups (teiids and amphisbaenians from the family Blanidae). Red and yellow bars correspond to average Z-specific and (pseudo)autosomal values, respectively. Blue bars correspond to the average values for (pseudo)autosomal control loci. Value 1.0 is expected for (pseudo)autosomal genes, while value 0.5 is consistent with Z-specificity. Our results suggest that sex chromosomes are highly conserved and homologous across lacertids, although in some species several genes, which are Z-linked in the majority of lacertids, have a (pseudo)autosomal pattern. These genes were not included in the figure, but were assigned in Table S3. Data from^20,21 were included. Phylogeny follows⁶⁸. Not all sub-Saharan species studied here were included in this phylogenetic hypothesis, which led to the soft polytomy in this clade.