Loss of RXFP2 and INSL3 genes in Afrotheria shows that testicular descent is the ancestral condition in placental mammals

• Virag Sharma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Germany

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• Thomas Lehmann,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Heiko Stuckas,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, Germany

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• Liane Funke,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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• Michael Hiller

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hiller@mpi-cbg.de

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-1449

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