Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges

A Sember, P Nguyen, MF Perez… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite decades of cytogenetic and genomic research of dynamic sex chromosome
evolution in teleost fishes, multiple sex chromosomes have been largely neglected. In this …

Understanding the evolution of reptile chromosomes through applications of combined cytogenetics and genomics approaches

JE Deakin, T Ezaz - Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 2019 - karger.com
Studies of reptile (nonavian reptiles) chromosomes began well over a century ago (1897)
with the initial report on the description of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) chromosomes. Since …

Lizards as model organisms of sex chromosome evolution: What we really know from a systematic distribution of available data?

M Mezzasalma, FM Guarino, G Odierna - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lizards represent unique model organisms in the study of sex determination and sex
chromosome evolution. Among tetrapods, they are characterized by an unparalleled …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Homeology of sex chromosomes in Amazonian Harttia armored catfishes supports the X-fission hypothesis for the X1X2Y sex chromosome system origin

FMC Sassi, A Sember, GA Deon, T Liehr… - Scientific …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Neotropical monophyletic catfish genus Harttia represents an excellent model to study
karyotype and sex chromosome evolution in teleosts. Its species split into three phylogenetic …

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei), an emerging model species

AJ Geneva, S Park, DG Bock, PLH de Mello… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid technological improvements are democratizing access to high quality, chromosome-
scale genome assemblies. No longer the domain of only the most highly studied model …

Repeated sex chromosome evolution in vertebrates supported by expanded avian sex chromosomes

H Sigeman, S Ponnikas, P Chauhan… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sex chromosomes have evolved from the same autosomes multiple times across
vertebrates, suggesting that selection for recombination suppression has acted repeatedly …

Sex chromosomes and master sex-determining genes in turtles and other reptiles

D Thépot - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among tetrapods, the well differentiated heteromorphic sex chromosomes of birds and
mammals have been highly investigated and their master sex-determining (MSD) gene …

Evolution of sex determination in amniotes: did stress and sequential hermaphroditism produce environmental determination?

B Straková, M Rovatsos, L Kubička, L Kratochvíl - BioEssays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent independent origins of environmental sex determination (ESD) are assumed within
amniotes. However, the phylogenetic distribution of sex‐determining modes suggests that …

All iguana families with the exception of basilisks share sex chromosomes

M Altmanová, M Rovatsos, MJ Pokorná, M Veselý… - Zoology, 2018 - Elsevier
Once believed to be restricted only to endotherms (mammals and birds), several
poikilothermic amniote lineages have recently been documented to possess long-term …