Sex chromosomes are a great example of a convergent evolution at the genomic level,
having evolved dozens of times just within amniotes. An intriguing question is whether this …

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 …

Amniotes possess astonishing variability in sex determination ranging from environmental
sex determination (ESD) to genotypic sex determination (GSD) with highly differentiated sex …

Amniotes possess variability in sex determination, ranging from environmental sex
determination to genotypic sex determination with differentiated sex chromosomes …

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

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 …

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 …

Sex chromosomes in some amniotes share linkage homologies with distantly related taxa in
regions orthologous to squamate reptile chromosome 2 (SR2) and the snake 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 …