Sex chromosomes as supergenes of speciation: why amphibians defy the rules?

C Dufresnes, PA Crochet - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As reflected by the two rules of speciation (Haldane's rule and the large X-/Z-effect), sex
chromosomes are expected to behave like supergenes of speciation: they recombine only in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hybridization and introgression between toads with different sex chromosome systems

C Dufresnes, SN Litvinchuk… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The growing interest in the lability of sex determination in non-model vertebrates such as
amphibians and fishes has revealed high rates of sex chromosome turnovers among closely …

Sex‐biased gene content is associated with sex chromosome turnover in Danaini butterflies

P Mora, M Hospodářská, AC Voleníková… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sex chromosomes play an outsized role in adaptation and speciation, and thus deserve
particular attention in evolutionary genomics. In particular, fusions between sex …

When Sex Chromosomes Recombine Only in the Heterogametic Sex: Heterochiasmy and Heterogamety in Hyla Tree Frogs

C Dufresnes, A Brelsford, F Baier… - Molecular biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes are classically predicted to stop recombining in the heterogametic sex,
thereby enforcing linkage between sex-determining (SD) and sex-antagonistic (SA) genes …

Evolutionary and demographic consequences of temperature-induced masculinization under climate warming: the effects of mate choice

E Nemesházi, S Kövér, V Bókony - BMC ecology and evolution, 2021 - Springer
Background One of the dangers of global climate change to wildlife is distorting sex ratios by
temperature-induced sex reversals in populations where sex determination is not …

Sex chromosome degeneration, turnover, and sex-biased expression of sex-linked transcripts in African clawed frogs (Xenopus)

XY Song, BLS Furman… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The tempo of sex chromosome evolution—how quickly, in what order, why and how their
particular characteristics emerge during evolution—remains poorly understood. To …

Sex chromosome evolution: the classical paradigm and so much beyond

P Veltsos, S Shinde, WJ Ma - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12034, 2024 - arxiv.org
Sex chromosomes have independently evolved in species with separate sexes in most
lineages across the tree of life. However, the well-accepted canonical model of sex …