Sex ratios in a warming world: thermal effects on sex-biased survival, sex determination, and sex reversal

S Edmands - Journal of Heredity, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Rising global temperatures threaten to disrupt population sex ratios, which can in turn cause
mate shortages, reduce population growth and adaptive potential, and increase extinction …

Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?

N Perrin - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sex-antagonistic (SA) genes are widely considered to be crucial players in the evolution of
sex chromosomes, being instrumental in the arrest of recombination and degeneration of Y …

A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs

DL Jeffries, G Lavanchy, R Sermier, MJ Sredl… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The canonical model of sex-chromosome evolution predicts that, as recombination is
suppressed along sex chromosomes, gametologs will progressively differentiate, eventually …

Novel genetic sex markers reveal high frequency of sex reversal in wild populations of the agile frog (Rana dalmatina) associated with anthropogenic land use

E Nemesházi, Z Gál, N Ujhegyi, V Verebélyi… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of ectothermic vertebrates are vulnerable to environmental pollution and climate
change because certain chemicals and extreme temperatures can cause sex reversal …

Sex-chromosome recombination in common frogs brings water to the fountain-of-youth

N Rodrigues, T Studer, C Dufresnes… - Molecular biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
According to the canonical model of sex-chromosome evolution, the degeneration of Y or W
chromosomes (as observed in mammals and birds, respectively) results from an arrest of …

The diversity and evolution of sex chromosomes in frogs

WJ Ma, P Veltsos - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Frogs are ideal organisms for studying sex chromosome evolution because of their diversity
in sex chromosome differentiation and sex-determination systems. We review 222 anuran …

Identifying homomorphic sex chromosomes from wild‐caught adults with limited genomic resources

A Brelsford, G Lavanchy, R Sermier… - Molecular Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate a genoty**‐by‐sequencing approach to identify homomorphic sex
chromosomes and their homolog in a distantly related reference genome, based on …

Random sex determination: When developmental noise tips the sex balance

N Perrin - BioEssays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sex‐determining factors are usually assumed to be either genetic or environmental. The
present paper aims at drawing attention to the potential contribution of developmental noise …

A reciprocal translocation radically reshapes sex‐linked inheritance in the common frog

MA Toups, N Rodrigues, N Perrin… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
X and Y chromosomes can diverge when rearrangements block recombination between
them. Here we present the first genomic view of a reciprocal translocation that causes two …

Expression profiles of dmrts and foxls during gonadal development and sex reversal induced by 17α-methyltestosterone in the orange-spotted grouper

Q Lyu, J Hu, XK Yang, XC Liu, YB Chen, L **ao… - General and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides, is a marine protogynous hermaphrodite
fish of commercial importance. There are many examples of sex change species among …