Functional dissection and assembly of a small, newly evolved, W chromosome-specific genomic region of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis

• Caroline M. S. Cauret,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Danielle C. Jordan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering and National Xenopus Resource, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts United States of America, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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• Lindsey M. Kukoly,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Sarah R. Burton,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering and National Xenopus Resource, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts United States of America

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• Emmanuela U. Anele,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department Zoology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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• Jacek M. Kwiecien,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Marie-Theres Gansauge,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Sinthu Senthillmohan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Eli Greenbaum,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

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• Matthias Meyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

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• Marko E. Horb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering and National Xenopus Resource, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts United States of America

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• Ben J. Evans

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: evansb@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Biology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9512-8845

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