Sex chromosome evolution: hallmarks and question marks

PA Saunders, A Muyle - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes are widespread in species with separate sexes. They have evolved many
times independently and display a truly remarkable diversity. New sequencing technologies …

Representing sex chromosomes in genome assemblies

SB Carey, JT Lovell, J Jenkins, J Leebens-Mack… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved hundreds of independent times across eukaryotes. As
genome sequencing, assembly, and scaffolding techniques rapidly improve, it is now …

Extreme Y chromosome polymorphism corresponds to five male reproductive morphs of a freshwater fish

BA Sandkam, P Almeida, I Darolti… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Loss of recombination between sex chromosomes often depletes Y chromosomes of
functional content and genetic variation, which might limit their potential to generate …

How did the guppy Y chromosome evolve?

D Charlesworth, R Bergero, C Graham, J Gardner… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The sex chromosome pairs of many species do not undergo genetic recombination, unlike
the autosomes. It has been proposed that the suppressed recombination results from natural …

Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes

W van der Bijl, JE Mank - Evolution Letters, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recent methodological approaches have expanded our understanding of Y chromosome
sequence, revealed unexpected Y diversity, and sparked a growing realization of its …

Double-quantitative feature selection using bidirectional three-level dependency measurements in divergence-based fuzzy rough sets

J Jiang, X Zhang, J Yang - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection benefits machine learning and knowledge acquisition, and it usually
resorts to various intelligent methodologies. Fuzzy rough sets act as a powerful platform of …

Evolutionary History of the Poecilia picta Sex Chromosomes

LJM Fong, I Darolti, DCH Metzger… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The degree of divergence between the sex chromosomes is not always proportional to their
age. In poeciliids, four closely related species all exhibit a male heterogametic sex …

Are plant and animal sex chromosomes really all that different?

JE Mank - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sex chromosomes in plants have often been contrasted with those in animals with the goal
of identifying key differences that can be used to elucidate fundamental evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of the Degenerated Y-Chromosome of the Swamp Guppy, Micropoecilia picta

I Nanda, S Schories, I Simeonov, MC Adolfi, K Du… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The conspicuous colour sexual dimorphism of guppies has made them paradigmatic study
objects for sex-linked traits and sex chromosome evolution. Both the X-and Y-chromosomes …

Locating the Sex Determining Region of Linkage Group 12 of Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

D Charlesworth, R Bergero, C Graham… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Despite over 100 years of study, the location of the fully sex-linked region of the guppy
(Poecilia reticulata) carrying the male-determining locus, and the regions where the XY pair …