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Charlesworth D. Some thoughts about the words we use for thinking about sex chromosome evolution. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2022; 377:20210314. [PMID: 35306893 PMCID: PMC8935297 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Sex chromosomes are familiar to most biologists since they first learned about genetics. However, research over the past 100 years has revealed that different organisms have evolved sex-determining systems independently. The differences in the ages of systems, and in how they evolved, both affect whether sex chromosomes have evolved. However, the diversity means that the terminology used tends to emphasize either the similarities or the differences, sometimes causing misunderstandings. In this article, I discuss some concepts where special care is needed with terminology. The following four terms regularly create problems: ‘sex chromosome’, ‘master sex-determining gene’, ‘evolutionary strata’ and ‘genetic degeneration’. There is no generally correct or wrong use of these words, but efforts are necessary to make clear how they are to be understood in specific situations. I briefly outline some widely accepted ideas about sex chromosomes, and then discuss these ‘problem terms’, highlighting some examples where careful use of the words helps bring to light current uncertainties and interesting questions for future work. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in land plants’.
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- Deborah Charlesworth
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LF, UK
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Carpentier F, Rodríguez de la Vega RC, Jay P, Duhamel M, Shykoff JA, Perlin MH, Wallen RM, Hood ME, Giraud T. Tempo of degeneration across independently evolved non-recombining regions. Mol Biol Evol 2022; 39:6553583. [PMID: 35325190 PMCID: PMC9004411 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Recombination is beneficial over the long term, allowing more effective selection. Despite long-term advantages of recombination, local recombination suppression can evolve and lead to genomic degeneration, in particular on sex chromosomes. Here, we investigated the tempo of degeneration in nonrecombining regions, that is, the function curve for the accumulation of deleterious mutations over time, leveraging on 22 independent events of recombination suppression identified on mating-type chromosomes of anther-smut fungi, including newly identified ones. Using previously available and newly generated high-quality genome assemblies of alternative mating types of 13 Microbotryum species, we estimated degeneration levels in terms of accumulation of nonoptimal codons and nonsynonymous substitutions in nonrecombining regions. We found a reduced frequency of optimal codons in the nonrecombining regions compared with autosomes, that was not due to less frequent GC-biased gene conversion or lower ancestral expression levels compared with recombining regions. The frequency of optimal codons rapidly decreased following recombination suppression and reached an asymptote after ca. 3 Ma. The strength of purifying selection remained virtually constant at dN/dS = 0.55, that is, at an intermediate level between purifying selection and neutral evolution. Accordingly, nonsynonymous differences between mating-type chromosomes increased linearly with stratum age, at a rate of 0.015 per My. We thus develop a method for disentangling effects of reduced selection efficacy from GC-biased gene conversion in the evolution of codon usage and we quantify the tempo of degeneration in nonrecombining regions, which is important for our knowledge on genomic evolution and on the maintenance of regions without recombination.
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- Fantin Carpentier
- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
- Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8198-Evo-Eco-Paleo F-59000, Lille, France
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
- Corresponding authors: E-mails: ;
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
- Evolution der Pflanzen und Pilze, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
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- Department of Biology, Program on Disease Evolution, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
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- Department of Biology, Program on Disease Evolution, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Bâtiment 360, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
- Corresponding authors: E-mails: ;
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Chen JR, Ueno H, Matsumura H, Urasaki N, Lee CY, Chen FC, Chin SW, Liu CC, Chiu CT, Tarora K, Li JY, Lee CY, Ku HM. Genomic characterization of a rare Carica papaya X chromosome mutant reveals a candidate monodehydroascorbate reductase 4 gene involved in all-hermaphrodite phenomenon. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 296:1323-1335. [PMID: 34609588 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-021-01822-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Sex form is one of the most important characteristics in papaya cultivation in which hermaphrodite is the preferable form. Self-pollination of H*-TSS No.7, an inbred line derived from a rare X chromosome mutant SR*, produced all-hermaphrodite progeny. The recessive lethal allele controlling the all-hermaphrodite phenomenon was proposed to be the recessive Germination suppressor (gs) locus. This study employed next-generation sequencing technology and genome comparison to identify the candidate Gs gene. One specific gene, monodehydroascorbate reductase 4 (MDAR4) harboring a unique polymorphic 3 bp deletion in H*-TSS No.7 was identified. The function of MDAR4 is known to be involved in the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) scavenging pathway and is associated with seed germination. Furthermore, MDAR4 showed higher expression in the imbibed seeds than that in the dry seeds indicating its potential role in the seed germination. Perhaps this is the very first report providing the evidences that MDAR4 is the candidate of Gs locus in H*-TSS No.7. In addition, Gs allele-specific markers were developed which would be facilitated for breeding all-hermaphrodite lines.
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- Jen-Ren Chen
- Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station, No 6 Xingzhong St, Xinshe Dist, Taichung, 426, Taiwan
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- Vegetable and Floriculture Science, The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 360 Kusawa, Ano, Tsu, Mie, 514-2392, Japan
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- Gene Research Center, Shinshu University, Tokida 3-15-1, Ueda, Nagano, 386-8567, Japan
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- Okinawa Prefectural Agriculture Research Center, Itoman, Okinawa, 901-0336, Japan
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- Department of Plant Industry, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, No 1, Shuefu Rd, Neipu, Pingtung, 912, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Industry, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, No 1, Shuefu Rd, Neipu, Pingtung, 912, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Industry, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, No 1, Shuefu Rd, Neipu, Pingtung, 912, Taiwan
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- Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, National Chung Hsing University, No 145 Xingda Rd, South Dist, Taichung, 402, Taiwan
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- Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station, No 6 Xingzhong St, Xinshe Dist, Taichung, 426, Taiwan
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- Okinawa Prefectural Agriculture Research Center, Itoman, Okinawa, 901-0336, Japan
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- Dashu District, Known-You Seed Co. Ltd, No 114-6, Zhuliao Road, Kaohsiung, 840, Taiwan
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- Dashu District, Known-You Seed Co. Ltd, No 114-6, Zhuliao Road, Kaohsiung, 840, Taiwan
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- Agronomy Department, National Chung Hsing University, No 145 Xingda Rd, South Dist, Taichung, 402, Taiwan.
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Prentout D, Stajner N, Cerenak A, Tricou T, Brochier-Armanet C, Jakse J, Käfer J, Marais GAB. Plant genera Cannabis and Humulus share the same pair of well-differentiated sex chromosomes. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:1599-1611. [PMID: 33978992 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We recently described, in Cannabis sativa, the oldest sex chromosome system documented so far in plants (12-28 Myr old). Based on the estimated age, we predicted that it should be shared by its sister genus Humulus, which is known also to possess XY chromosomes. Here, we used transcriptome sequencing of an F1 family of H. lupulus to identify and study the sex chromosomes in this species using the probabilistic method SEX-DETector. We identified 265 sex-linked genes in H. lupulus, which preferentially mapped to the C. sativa X chromosome. Using phylogenies of sex-linked genes, we showed that a region of the sex chromosomes had already stopped recombining in an ancestor of both species. Furthermore, as in C. sativa, Y-linked gene expression reduction is correlated to the position on the X chromosome, and highly Y degenerated genes showed dosage compensation. We report, for the first time in Angiosperms, a sex chromosome system that is shared by two different genera. Thus, recombination suppression started at least 21-25 Myr ago, and then (either gradually or step-wise) spread to a large part of the sex chromosomes (c. 70%), leading to a degenerated Y chromosome.
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- Djivan Prentout
- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
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- Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing, Cesta Zalskega Tabora 2, Zalec, SI-3310, Slovenia
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
- LEAF- Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, 1349-017, Portugal
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Charlesworth D. The timing of genetic degeneration of sex chromosomes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20200093. [PMID: 34247501 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Genetic degeneration is an extraordinary feature of sex chromosomes, with the loss of functions of Y-linked genes in species with XY systems, and W-linked genes in ZW systems, eventually affecting almost all genes. Although degeneration is familiar to most biologists, important aspects are not yet well understood, including how quickly a Y or W chromosome can become completely degenerated. I review the current understanding of the time-course of degeneration. Degeneration starts after crossing over between the sex chromosome pair stops, and theoretical models predict an initially fast degeneration rate and a later much slower one. It has become possible to estimate the two quantities that the models suggest are the most important in determining degeneration rates-the size of the sex-linked region, and the time when recombination became suppressed (which can be estimated using Y-X or W-Z sequence divergence). However, quantifying degeneration is still difficult. I review evidence on gene losses (based on coverage analysis) or loss of function (by classifying coding sequences into functional alleles and pseudogenes). I also review evidence about whether small genome regions degenerate, or only large ones, whether selective constraints on the genes in a sex-linked region also strongly affect degeneration rates, and about how long it takes before all (or almost all) genes are lost. This article is part of the theme issue 'Challenging the paradigm in sex chromosome evolution: empirical and theoretical insights with a focus on vertebrates (Part I)'.
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- Deborah Charlesworth
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, EH9 3LF, UK
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Chae T, Harkess A, Moore RC. Sex-linked gene expression and the emergence of hermaphrodites in Carica papaya. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2021; 108:1029-1041. [PMID: 34156700 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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PREMISE One evolutionary path from hermaphroditism to dioecy is via a gynodioecious intermediate. The evolution of dioecy may also coincide with the formation of sex chromosomes that possess sex-determining loci that are physically linked in a region of suppressed recombination. Dioecious papaya (Carica papaya) has an XY chromosome system, where the presence of a Y chromosome determines maleness. However, in cultivation, papaya is gynodioecious, due to the conversion of the male Y chromosome to a hermaphroditic Yh chromosome during its domestication. METHODS We investigated gene expression linked to the X, Y, and Yh chromosomes at different floral developmental stages to identify differentially expressed genes that may be involved in the sexual transition of males to hermaphrodites. RESULTS We identified 309 sex-biased genes found on the sex chromosomes, most of which are found in the pseudoautosomal regions. Female (XX) expression in the sex-determining region was almost double that of X-linked expression in males (XY) and hermaphrodites (XYh ), which rules out dosage compensation for most sex-linked genes; although, an analysis of hemizygous X-linked loci found evidence of partial dosage compensation. Furthermore, we identified a candidate gene associated with sex determination and the transition to hermaphroditism, a homolog of the MADS-box protein SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE. CONCLUSIONS We identified a pattern of partial dosage compensation for hemizygous genes located in the papaya sex-determining region. Furthermore, we propose that loss-of-expression of the Y-linked SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE homolog facilitated the transition from males to hermaphrodites in papaya.
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- Taylor Chae
- Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
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- Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL
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Y and W chromosomes start degenerating after they evolve a non-recombining region that is always heterozygous in males (Y) or females (W), sometimes losing almost all genes that were originally present on their X or Z counterparts. A new model for such degeneration involves evolutionary change in regulatory sequences.
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Charlesworth D. When and how do sex-linked regions become sex chromosomes? Evolution 2021; 75:569-581. [PMID: 33592115 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The attention given to heteromorphism and genetic degeneration of "classical sex chromosomes" (Y chromosomes in XY systems, and the W in ZW systems that were studied first and are best described) has perhaps created the impression that the absence of recombination between sex chromosomes is inevitable. I here argue that continued recombination is often to be expected, that absence of recombination is surprising and demands further study, and that the involvement of selection in reduced recombination is not yet well understood. Despite a long history of investigations of sex chromosome pairs, there is a need for more quantitative approaches to studying sex-linked regions. I describe a scheme to help understand the relationships between different properties of sex-linked regions. Specifically, I focus on their sizes (differentiating between small regions and extensive fully sex-linked ones), the times when they evolved, and their differentiation, and review studies using DNA sequencing in nonmodel organisms that are providing information about the processes causing these properties.
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- Deborah Charlesworth
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, United Kingdom
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Baránková S, Pascual-Díaz JP, Sultana N, Alonso-Lifante MP, Balant M, Barros K, D'Ambrosio U, Malinská H, Peska V, Pérez Lorenzo I, Kovařík A, Vyskot B, Janoušek B, Garcia S. Sex-chrom, a database on plant sex chromosomes. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 227:1594-1604. [PMID: 32357248 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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- Simona Baránková
- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Life and Earth Sciences, Jagannath University, Dhaka, 1100, Bangladesh
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, 400 96, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institut Botanic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Passeig del Migdia s/n, 08038, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Veltsos P, Ridout KE, Toups MA, González-Martínez SC, Muyle A, Emery O, Rastas P, Hudzieczek V, Hobza R, Vyskot B, Marais GAB, Filatov DA, Pannell JR. Early Sex-Chromosome Evolution in the Diploid Dioecious Plant Mercurialis annua. Genetics 2019; 212:815-835. [PMID: 31113811 PMCID: PMC6614902 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.302045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Suppressed recombination allows divergence between homologous sex chromosomes and the functionality of their genes. Here, we reveal patterns of the earliest stages of sex-chromosome evolution in the diploid dioecious herb Mercurialis annua on the basis of cytological analysis, de novo genome assembly and annotation, genetic mapping, exome resequencing of natural populations, and transcriptome analysis. The genome assembly contained 34,105 expressed genes, of which 10,076 were assigned to linkage groups. Genetic mapping and exome resequencing of individuals across the species range both identified the largest linkage group, LG1, as the sex chromosome. Although the sex chromosomes of M. annua are karyotypically homomorphic, we estimate that about one-third of the Y chromosome, containing 568 transcripts and spanning 22.3 cM in the corresponding female map, has ceased recombining. Nevertheless, we found limited evidence for Y-chromosome degeneration in terms of gene loss and pseudogenization, and most X- and Y-linked genes appear to have diverged in the period subsequent to speciation between M. annua and its sister species M. huetii, which shares the same sex-determining region. Taken together, our results suggest that the M. annua Y chromosome has at least two evolutionary strata: a small old stratum shared with M. huetii, and a more recent larger stratum that is probably unique to M. annua and that stopped recombining ∼1 MYA. Patterns of gene expression within the nonrecombining region are consistent with the idea that sexually antagonistic selection may have played a role in favoring suppressed recombination.
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- Paris Veltsos
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
- Department of Oncology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, 78712 Texas
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- Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive (UMR 5558), CNRS/Université Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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- University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology, 00014, Finland
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 61200 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, OX1 3RB, United Kingdom
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
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Pilkington SM, Tahir J, Hilario E, Gardiner SE, Chagné D, Catanach A, McCallum J, Jesson L, Fraser LG, McNeilage MA, Deng C, Crowhurst RN, Datson PM, Zhang Q. Genetic and cytological analyses reveal the recombination landscape of a partially differentiated plant sex chromosome in kiwifruit. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:172. [PMID: 31039740 PMCID: PMC6492441 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1766-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Angiosperm sex chromosomes, where present, are generally recently evolved. The key step in initiating the development of sex chromosomes from autosomes is the establishment of a sex-determining locus within a region of non-recombination. To better understand early sex chromosome evolution, it is important to determine the process by which recombination is suppressed around the sex determining genes. We have used the dioecious angiosperm kiwifruit Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis, which has an active-Y sex chromosome system, to study recombination rates around the sex locus, to better understand key events in the development of sex chromosomes. RESULTS We have confirmed the sex-determining region (SDR) in A. chinensis var. chinensis, using a combination of high density genetic mapping and fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) of Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (BACs) linked to the sex markers onto pachytene chromosomes. The SDR is a subtelomeric non-recombining region adjacent to the nucleolar organiser region (NOR). A region of restricted recombination of around 6 Mbp in size in both male and female maps spans the SDR and covers around a third of chromosome 25. CONCLUSIONS As recombination is suppressed over a similar region between X chromosomes and between and X and Y chromosomes, we propose that recombination is suppressed in this region because of the proximity of the NOR and the centromere, with both the NOR and centromere suppressing recombination, and this predates suppressed recombination due to differences between X and Y chromosomes. Such regions of suppressed recombination in the genome provide an opportunity for the evolution of sex chromosomes, if a sex-determining locus develops there or translocates into this region.
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- S. M. Pilkington
- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North, 4442 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North, 4442 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 11600, Palmerston North, 4442 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch, 8140 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 4704, Christchurch, 8140 New Zealand
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- PFR, Private Bag 1401, Havelock North, 4157 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited (PFR), Private Bag 92169, Auckland, 1142 New Zealand
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074 China
- The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074 China
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Hobza R, Hudzieczek V, Kubat Z, Cegan R, Vyskot B, Kejnovsky E, Janousek B. Sex and the flower - developmental aspects of sex chromosome evolution. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2018; 122:1085-1101. [PMID: 30032185 PMCID: PMC6324748 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Background The evolution of dioecious plants is occasionally accompanied by the establishment of sex chromosomes: both XY and ZW systems have been found in plants. Structural studies of sex chromosomes are now being followed up by functional studies that are gradually shedding light on the specific genetic and epigenetic processes that shape the development of separate sexes in plants. Scope This review describes sex determination diversity in plants and the genetic background of dioecy, summarizes recent progress in the investigation of both classical and emerging model dioecious plants and discusses novel findings. The advantages of interspecies hybrids in studies focused on sex determination and the role of epigenetic processes in sexual development are also overviewed. Conclusions We integrate the genic, genomic and epigenetic levels of sex determination and stress the impact of sex chromosome evolution on structural and functional aspects of plant sexual development. We also discuss the impact of dioecy and sex chromosomes on genome structure and expression.
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- Roman Hobza
- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Kralovopolska, Brno, Czech Republic
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Levels and patterns of genetic diversity can provide insights into a population’s history. In species with sex chromosomes, differences between genomic regions with unique inheritance patterns can be used to distinguish between different sets of possible demographic and selective events. This review introduces the differences in population history for sex chromosomes and autosomes, provides the expectations for genetic diversity across the genome under different evolutionary scenarios, and gives an introductory description for how deviations in these expectations are calculated and can be interpreted. Predominantly, diversity on the sex chromosomes has been used to explore and address three research areas: 1) Mating patterns and sex-biased variance in reproductive success, 2) signatures of selection, and 3) evidence for modes of speciation and introgression. After introducing the theory, this review catalogs recent studies of genetic diversity on the sex chromosomes across species within the major research areas that sex chromosomes are typically applied to, arguing that there are broad similarities not only between male-heterogametic (XX/XY) and female-heterogametic (ZZ/ZW) sex determination systems but also any mating system with reduced recombination in a sex-determining region. Further, general patterns of reduced diversity in nonrecombining regions are shared across plants and animals. There are unique patterns across populations with vastly different patterns of mating and speciation, but these do not tend to cluster by taxa or sex determination system.
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- Melissa A Wilson Sayres
- School of Life Sciences, Center for Evolution and Medicine, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
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Wu M, Lewis J, Moore RC. A wild origin of the loss-of-function lycopene beta cyclase (CYC-b) allele in cultivated, red-fleshed papaya (Carica papaya). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2017; 104:116-126. [PMID: 28082282 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY The red flesh of some papaya cultivars is caused by a recessive loss-of-function mutation in the coding region of the chromoplast-specific lycopene beta cyclase gene (CYC-b). We performed an evolutionary genetic analysis of the CYC-b locus in wild and cultivated papaya to uncover the origin of this loss-of-function allele in cultivated papaya. METHODS We analyzed the levels and patterns of genetic diversity at the CYC-b locus and six loci in a 100-kb region flanking CYC-b and compared these to genetic diversity levels at neutral autosomal loci. The evolutionary relationships of CYC-b haplotypes were assessed using haplotype network analysis of the CYC-b locus and the 100-kb CYC-b region. KEY RESULTS Genetic diversity at the recessive CYC-b allele (y) was much lower relative to the dominant Y allele found in yellow-fleshed wild and cultivated papaya due to a strong selective sweep. Haplotype network analyses suggest the y allele most likely arose in the wild and was introduced into domesticated varieties after the first papaya domestication event. The shared haplotype structure between some wild, feral, and cultivated haplotypes around the y allele supports subsequent escape of this allele from red cultivars back into wild populations through feral intermediates. CONCLUSIONS Our study supports a protracted domestication process of papaya through the introgression of wild-derived traits and gene flow from cultivars to wild populations. Evidence of gene flow from cultivars to wild populations through feral intermediates has implications for the introduction of transgenic papaya into Central American countries.
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- Meng Wu
- Miami University, Department of Biology, 212 Pearson Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama 36104 USA
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- Miami University, Department of Biology, 212 Pearson Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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VanBuren R, Wai CM, Zhang J, Han J, Arro J, Lin Z, Liao Z, Yu Q, Wang ML, Zee F, Moore RC, Charlesworth D, Ming R. Extremely low nucleotide diversity in the X-linked region of papaya caused by a strong selective sweep. Genome Biol 2016; 17:230. [PMID: 27890017 PMCID: PMC5125041 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1095-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background The papaya Y-linked region showed clear population structure, resulting in the detection of the ancestral male population that domesticated hermaphrodite papayas were selected from. The same populations were used to study nucleotide diversity and population structure in the X-linked region. Results Diversity is very low for all genes in the X-linked region in the wild dioecious population, with nucleotide diversity πsyn = 0.00017, tenfold lower than the autosomal region (πsyn = 0.0017) and 12-fold lower than the Y-linked region (πsyn = 0.0021). Analysis of the X-linked sequences shows an undivided population, suggesting a geographically wide diversity-reducing event, whereas two subpopulations were observed in the autosomes separating gynodioecy and dioecy and three subpopulations in the Y-linked region separating three male populations. The extremely low diversity in the papaya X-linked region was probably caused by a recent, strong selective sweep before domestication, involving either the spread of a recessive mutation in an X-linked gene that is beneficial to males or a partially dominant mutation that benefitted females or both sexes. Nucleotide diversity in the domesticated X samples is about half that in the wild Xs, probably due to the bottleneck when hermaphrodites were selected during domestication. Conclusions The extreme low nucleotide diversity in the papaya X-linked region is much greater than observed in humans, great apes, and the neo-X chromosome of Drosophila miranda, which show the expected pattern of Y-linked genes < X-linked genes < autosomal genes; papaya shows an unprecedented pattern of X-linked genes < autosomal genes < Y-linked genes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1095-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Robert VanBuren
- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.,Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China.,Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX, 75252, USA
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- Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Kunia, HI, 96759, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, HI, 96720, USA
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- Department of Botany, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK
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- FAFU and UIUC-SIB Joint Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China. .,Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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Although individuals in most flowering plant species, and in many haploid plants, have both sex functions, dioecious species-in which individuals have either male or female functions only-are scattered across many taxonomic groups, and many species have genetic sex determination. Among these, some have visibly heteromorphic sex chromosomes, and molecular genetic studies are starting to uncover sex-linked markers in others, showing that they too have fully sex-linked regions that are either too small or are located in chromosomes that are too small to be cytologically detectable from lack of pairing, lack of visible crossovers, or accumulation of heterochromatin. Detailed study is revealing that, like animal sex chromosomes, plant sex-linked regions show evidence for accumulation of repetitive sequences and genetic degeneration. Estimating when recombination stopped confirms the view that many plants have young sex-linked regions, making plants of great interest for studying the timescale of these changes.
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- Deborah Charlesworth
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FL, United Kingdom;
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Breeding Systems, Mating Systems, and Genomics of Gender Determination in Angiosperm Trees. COMPARATIVE AND EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF ANGIOSPERM TREES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/7397_2016_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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