Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the 'extended speciation continuum'

M Stöck, D Dedukh, R Reifová… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review knowledge about the roles of sex chromosomes in vertebrate hybridization and
speciation, exploring a gradient of divergences with increasing reproductive isolation …

Sex chromosomes as supergenes of speciation: why amphibians defy the rules?

C Dufresnes, PA Crochet - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As reflected by the two rules of speciation (Haldane's rule and the large X-/Z-effect), sex
chromosomes are expected to behave like supergenes of speciation: they recombine only in …

[HTML][HTML] Species list of the European herpetofauna–2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

J Speybroeck, W Beukema, C Dufresnes, U Fritz… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2020 - brill.com
The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

Mass of genes rather than master genes underlie the genomic architecture of amphibian speciation

C Dufresnes, A Brelsford, DL Jeffries… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The genetic architecture of speciation, ie, how intrinsic genomic incompatibilities promote
reproductive isolation (RI) between diverging lineages, is one of the best-kept secrets of …

Genomics of hybridization and its evolutionary consequences

RJ Abbott, NH Barton, JM Good - Molecular …, 2016 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
Hybridization and its consequences have been of longstanding interest to evolutionary
biologists. Darwin (1859) included a chapter on hybrids and the expression and causes of …

Convergent recombination suppression suggests role of sexual selection in guppy sex chromosome formation

AE Wright, I Darolti, NI Bloch, V Oostra… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Sex chromosomes evolve once recombination is halted between a homologous pair of
chromosomes. The dominant model of sex chromosome evolution posits that recombination …

Genomic Evidence for Cryptic Speciation in Tree Frogs From the Apennine Peninsula, With Description of Hyla perrini sp. nov

C Dufresnes, G Mazepa, N Rodrigues… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Despite increasing appreciation of the speciation continuum, delimiting and describing new
species is a major yet necessary challenge of modern phylogeography to help optimize …

Multiple uprising invasions of Pelophylax water frogs, potentially inducing a new hybridogenetic complex

C Dufresnes, M Denoël, L Di Santo, S Dubey - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The genetic era has revolutionized our perception of biological invasions. Yet, it is usually
too late to understand their genesis for efficient management. Here, we take the rare …

Hybridization and introgression between toads with different sex chromosome systems

C Dufresnes, SN Litvinchuk… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The growing interest in the lability of sex determination in non-model vertebrates such as
amphibians and fishes has revealed high rates of sex chromosome turnovers among closely …

Slower-X: reduced efficiency of selection in the early stages of X chromosome evolution

A Mrnjavac, KA Khudiakova, NH Barton… - Evolution …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Differentiated X chromosomes are expected to have higher rates of adaptive divergence
than autosomes, if new beneficial mutations are recessive (the “faster-X effect”), largely …