How to make a sex chromosome

AE Wright, R Dean, F Zimmer, JE Mank - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Sex chromosomes can evolve once recombination is halted between a homologous pair of
chromosomes. Owing to detailed studies using key model systems, we have a nuanced …

Molecular and evolutionary dynamics of animal sex-chromosome turnover

B Vicoso - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Prevailing models of sex-chromosome evolution were largely inspired by the stable and
highly differentiated XY pairs of model organisms, such as those of mammals and flies …

Conserved sex chromosomes and karyotype evolution in monitor lizards (Varanidae)

A Iannucci, M Altmanová, C Ciofi, M Ferguson-Smith… - Heredity, 2019 - nature.com
Despite their long history with the basal split dating back to the Eocene, all species of
monitor lizards (family Varanidae) studied so far share the same chromosome number of 2 …

Convergent origination of a Drosophila-like dosage compensation mechanism in a reptile lineage

R Marin, D Cortez, F Lamanna, MM Pradeepa… - Genome …, 2017 - genome.cshlp.org
Sex chromosomes differentiated from different ancestral autosomes in various vertebrate
lineages. Here, we trace the functional evolution of the XY Chromosomes of the green anole …

Shared ancient sex chromosomes in varanids, beaded lizards, and alligator lizards

M Rovatsos, I Rehák, P Velenský… - Molecular biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Sex determination in varanids, Gila monsters, beaded lizards, and other anguimorphan
lizards is still poorly understood. Sex chromosomes were reported only in a few species …

What was the ancestral sex‐determining mechanism in amniote vertebrates?

MJ Pokorná, L Kratochvíl - Biological Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Amniote vertebrates, the group consisting of mammals and reptiles including birds, possess
various mechanisms of sex determination. Under environmental sex determination (ESD) …

Evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in snakes

M Rovatsos, J Vukić… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amniote vertebrates possess various mechanisms of sex determination, but their variability
is not equally distributed. The large evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in viviparous …

Genome of the Komodo dragon reveals adaptations in the cardiovascular and chemosensory systems of monitor lizards

AL Lind, YYY Lai, Y Mostovoy, AK Holloway… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Monitor lizards are unique among ectothermic reptiles in that they have high aerobic
capacity and distinctive cardiovascular physiology resembling that of endothermic …

[PDF][PDF] Are geckos special in sex determination? Independently evolved differentiated ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in carphodactylid geckos

B Augstenová, E Pensabene, M Veselý… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Amniotes possess astonishing variability in sex determination ranging from environmental
sex determination (ESD) to genotypic sex determination (GSD) with highly differentiated sex …

The rise and fall of differentiated sex chromosomes in geckos

M Rovatsos, K Farkačová, M Altmanová… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Amniotes possess variability in sex determination, ranging from environmental sex
determination to genotypic sex determination with differentiated sex chromosomes …