amniote super-sex chromosome, but a recent study showed that the Siamese cobra W sex
chromosome is also a part of this larger ancestral chromosome. To confirm the existence of
an ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome and understand the mechanisms of amniote
sex chromosome evolution, chromosome maps of two snake species [Russell's viper:
Daboia russelii (DRU) and the common tiger snake: Notechis scutatus (NSC)] were …