Sex-chromosome evolution: recent progress and the influence of male and female heterogamety

Gene Duplication, Gene Conversion and the Evolution of the Y Chromosome

(2010) Tim Connallon et al.   GENETICS

Direct Evidence for Postmeiotic Transcription During Drosophila melanogaster Spermatogenesis

(2010) Maria D. Vibranovski et al.   GENETICS

Muller's Ratchet and the Degeneration of the Drosophila miranda Neo-Y Chromosome

(2010) V. B. Kaiser et al.   GENETICS

The Birds and the Bees and the Flowers and the Trees: Lessons from Genetic Mapping of Sex Determination in Plants and Animals

(2010) Deborah Charlesworth et al.   GENETICS

Transitions Between Male and Female Heterogamety Caused by Sex-Antagonistic Selection

(2010) G. S. van Doorn et al.   GENETICS

Can Intra-Y Gene Conversion Oppose the Degeneration of the Human Y Chromosome?: A Simulation Study

(2010) G. A. B. Marais et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genome-wide misexpression of X-linked versus autosomal genes associated with hybrid male sterility

(2010) X. Lu et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Age-dependent chromosomal distribution of male-biased genes in Drosophila

(2010) Y. E. Zhang et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

(2010) Jennifer F. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Convergent evolution of chicken Z and human X chromosomes by expansion and gene acquisition

(2010) Daniel W. Bellott et al.   NATURE

The ratio of human X chromosome to autosome diversity is positively correlated with genetic distance from genes

(2010) Michael F Hammer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Chromosomal Redistribution of Male-Biased Genes in Mammalian Evolution with Two Bursts of Gene Gain on the X Chromosome

(2010) Yong E. Zhang et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Sexually Antagonistic Genes of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) Paolo Innocenti et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Widespread Over-Expression of the X Chromosome in Sterile F1 Hybrid Mice

(2010) Jeffrey M. Good et al.   PLoS Genetics

Remarkably Little Variation in Proteins Encoded by the Y Chromosome's Single-Copy Genes, Implying Effective Purifying Selection

(2009) Steve Rozen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Gene Conversion between the X Chromosome and the Male-Specific Region of the Y Chromosome at a Translocation Hotspot

(2009) Zoë H. Rosser et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The role of LINEs and CpG islands in dosage compensation on the chicken Z chromosome

(2009) Esther Melamed et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

SEX-LINKAGE OF SEXUALLY ANTAGONISTIC GENES IS PREDICTED BY FEMALE, BUT NOT MALE, EFFECTS IN BIRDS

(2009) Judith E. Mank et al.   EVOLUTION

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE AND THE FASTER-X EFFECT: EMPIRICAL RESULTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

(2009) Judith E. Mank et al.   EVOLUTION

The Silkworm Z Chromosome Is Enriched in Testis-Specific Genes

(2009) K. P. Arunkumar et al.   GENETICS

Evolutionary Strata in a Small Mating-Type-Specific Region of the Smut Fungus Microbotryum violaceum

(2009) Antonina A Votintseva et al.   GENETICS

Evidence That Replication-Associated Mutation Alone Does Not Explain Between-Chromosome Differences In Substitution Rates

(2009) Catherine J. Pink et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A Complex Suite of Forces Drives Gene Traffic from Drosophila X Chromosomes

(2009) Richard P. Meisel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Footprints of Inversions at Present and Past Pseudoautosomal Boundaries in Human Sex Chromosomes

(2009) Claire Lemaitre et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus

(2009) M. D. Vibranovski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Chicken Z Chromosome Is Enriched for Genes with Preferential Expression in Ovarian Somatic Cells

(2009) Libor Mořkovský et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The Deficit of Male-Biased Genes on the D. melanogaster X Chromosome Is Expression-Dependent: A Consequence of Dosage Compensation?

(2009) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Footprints of X-to-Y Gene Conversion in Recent Human Evolution

(2009) B. Trombetta et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Faster-Z Evolution Is Predominantly Due to Genetic Drift

(2009) J. E. Mank et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The avian Z-linked gene DMRT1 is required for male sex determination in the chicken

(2009) Craig A. Smith et al.   NATURE

The different levels of genetic diversity in sex chromosomes and autosomes

(2009) Hans Ellegren   TRENDS IN GENETICS

X Chromosome: Expression and Escape

(2009) John Parsch   PLoS Genetics

Female Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation in Chicken

(2009) Sam Schoenmakers et al.   PLoS Genetics

Stage-Specific Expression Profiling of Drosophila Spermatogenesis Suggests that Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation Drives Genomic Relocation of Testis-Expressed Genes

(2009) Maria D. Vibranovski et al.   PLoS Genetics

The ZW sex chromosomes of Gekko hokouensis (Gekkonidae, Squamata) represent highly conserved homology with those of avian species

(2008) Aya Kawai et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Different origins of ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes in closely related medaka fishes, Oryzias javanicus and O. hubbsi

(2008) Yusuke Takehana et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Gene content evolution on the X chromosome

(2008) Tatiana A Gurbich et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

The Temporal Dynamics of Processes Underlying Y Chromosome Degeneration

(2008) D. Bachtrog   GENETICS

The Chicken (Gallus gallus) Z Chromosome Contains at Least Three Nonlinear Evolutionary Strata

(2008) K. Nam et al.   GENETICS

Muller's Ratchet and the Degeneration of Y Chromosomes: A Simulation Study

(2008) J. Engelstadter   GENETICS

Evidence for Male-Driven Evolution in Drosophila

(2008) D. Bachtrog   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Low conservation of gene content in the Drosophila Y chromosome

(2008) Leonardo B. Koerich et al.   NATURE

Evaluating signatures of sex-specific processes in the human genome

(2008) Carlos D Bustamante et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The evolution of restricted recombination in sex chromosomes

(2008) Roberta Bergero et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sex chromosomes and speciation in Drosophila

(2008) Daven C. Presgraves   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The effects of deleterious mutations on evolution in non-recombining genomes

(2008) Vera B. Kaiser et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Inexorable Spread of a Newly Arisen Neo-Y Chromosome

(2008) Paris Veltsos et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Mating-Type Chromosome in the Filamentous Ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma Represents a Model for Early Evolution of Sex Chromosomes

(2008) Audrius Menkis et al.   PLoS Genetics