With more than 70,000 living species, vertebrates have a huge impact on the field of biology
and research, including karyotype evolution. One prominent aspect of many vertebrate …

Reptiles are notable for the extensive genomic diversity and species richness among
amniote classes, but there is nevertheless a need for detailed genome-scale studies …

Bighead catfish (Clarias macrocephalus, Günther, 1864) is an important aquacultural
species that plays a crucial role in the economy of Southeast Asia. Crossbreeding between …

An investigation of sex-specific loci may provide important insights into fish sex
determination strategies. This may be useful for biotechnological purposes, for example, to …

Squamate reptile chromosome 2 (SR2) is thought to be an important remnant of an ancestral
amniote super-sex chromosome, but a recent study showed that the Siamese cobra W sex …

Transposable elements (TEs) comprise a substantial portion of eukaryotic genomes. They
have the unique ability to integrate into new locations and serve as the main source of …

Heteromorphic sex chromosomes, particularly the ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system of birds
and some reptiles, undergo evolutionary dynamics distinct from those of autosomes. The W …

The distinctive biology and unique evolutionary features of snakes make them fascinating
model systems to elucidate how genomes evolve and how variation at the genomic level is …

Elucidation of the process of sex chromosome differentiation is necessary to understand the
dynamics of evolutionary mechanisms in organisms. The W sex chromosome of the …

Most of snakes exhibit a ZZ/ZW sex chromosome system, with different stages of
degeneration. However, undifferentiated sex chromosomes and unique Y sex-linked …