Many poikilothermic vertebrate lineages, especially among amphibians and fishes, possess
a rapid turnover of sex chromosomes, while in endotherms there is a notable stability of sex …

Many poikilothermic vertebrate lineages, especially among amphibians and fishes, possess
a rapid turnover of sex chromosomes, while in endotherms there is a notable stability of sex …

Once believed to be restricted only to endotherms (mammals and birds), several
poikilothermic amniote lineages have recently been documented to possess long-term …

Amniote vertebrates, the group consisting of mammals and reptiles including birds, possess
various mechanisms of sex determination. Under environmental sex determination (ESD) …

Reptiles show remarkable diversity in modes of reproduction and sex determination,
including high variation in the morphology of sex chromosomes, ranging from homomorphic …

Reptiles (sauropsids) represent the sister group to mammals, and the basal members of
Reptilia may provide a good model for the condition of the common ancestor of both groups …

Important technological advances in genomics are driving a new understanding of the
evolution of sex determination in vertebrates. In particular, comparative chromosome …

Sex determination systems have greatly diversified between amphibians and reptiles, with
such as the different sex chromosome compositions within a single species and transition …

Vertebrates possess diverse sex-determining systems, which differ in evolutionary stability
among particular groups. It has been suggested that poikilotherms possess more frequent …

Many paleognaths (ratites and tinamous) have a pair of homomorphic ZW sex chromosomes
in contrast to the highly differentiated sex chromosomes of most other birds. To understand …