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| Title |
Chromatin structural changes around satellite repeats on the female sex chromosome in Schistosoma mansoni and their possible role in sex chromosome emergence
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| Published in |
Genome Biology, February 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/gb-2012-13-2-r14 |
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| Authors |
Julie MJ Lepesant, Céline Cosseau, Jérome Boissier, Michael Freitag, Julien Portela, Déborah Climent, Cécile Perrin, Adhemar Zerlotini, Christoph Grunau |
| Abstract |
In the leuphotrochozoan parasitic platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni, male individuals are homogametic (ZZ) whereas females are heterogametic (ZW). To elucidate the mechanisms that led to the emergence of sex chromosomes, we compared the genomic sequence and the chromatin structure of male and female individuals. As for many eukaryotes, the lower estimate for the repeat content is 40%, with an unknown proportion of domesticated repeats. We used massive sequencing to de novo assemble all repeats, and identify unambiguously Z-specific, W-specific and pseudoautosomal regions of the S. mansoni sex chromosomes. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 3 | 30% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 50% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 30% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 10% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Russia | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 37 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 29% |
| Researcher | 9 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 22 | 54% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 2% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 1 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 8 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2013.
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#6,313,804
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#3,031
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#39,754
of 167,987 outputs
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#31
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