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 …

[PDF][PDF] Sexy ways: approaches to studying plant sex chromosomes

T Janíček, B Janoušek, P Jedlička… - Journal of …, 2024 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Sex chromosomes have evolved in many plant species with separate sexes. Current plant
research is shifting from examining the structure of sex chromosomes to exploring their …

ZW sex chromosome structure in Amborella trichopoda

SB Carey, L Aközbek, JT Lovell, J Jenkins, AL Healey… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved hundreds of times across the flowering plant tree of life;
their recent origins in some members of this clade can shed light on the early consequences …

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 …

Rewinding the ratchet: rare recombination locally rescues neo-W degeneration and generates plateaus of sex-chromosome divergence

T Decroly, R Vila, K Lohse… - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Natural selection is less efficient in the absence of recombination. As a result,
nonrecombining sequences, such as sex chromosomes, tend to degenerate over time …

Phylogenomics resolves key relationships in Rumex and uncovers a dynamic history of independently evolving sex chromosomes

MS Hibbins, JL Rifkin, BI Choudhury… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved independently many times across eukaryotes. Despite a
considerable body of literature on sex chromosome evolution, the causes and …

Sexy ways: the methodical approaches to study plant sex chromosomes

R Hobza, V Bačovský, R Čegan… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes have evolved in many plant species with separate sexes. Current plant
research is shifting from examining the structure of sex chromosomes to exploring their …

Centromeric repeat diversity underlies non-Mendelian segregation pattern in hop (Humulus lupulus)

L Horakova, R Cegan, P Jedlicka, P Navratilova… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Aberrant meiosis in plants often leads to aneuploidy, genetic instability, and sterility. This
can occur due to several factors, including chromosome misalignment, defective synapsis or …

The evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes in plants

SB Carey, PC Bentz, JT Lovell, LM Akozbek, JS Havill… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Ancient heteromorphic sex chromosomes are common in mammals, but not in plants. Sex
chromosomes in the plant family Cannabaceae, which includes species like hops and …

The evolution, diversity, and genetic architecture of sex in waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus)

JM Kreiner, M Todesco, N Bercovich, Y Gong… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The evolution of separate sexes is hypothesized to occur through distinct pathways involving
few large-effect or many small-effect alleles. However, the genetic architecture of sex may …