Cytogenetically Elusive Sex Chromosomes in Scincoidean Lizards

Poorly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes are widely shared across skink radiation

(2021) Alexander Kostmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

First Report of Sex Chromosomes in Plated Lizards (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae)

(2021) Alexander Kostmann et al.   Sexual Development

Differences in Homomorphic Sex Chromosomes Are Associated with Population Divergence in Sex Determination in Carinascincus ocellatus (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

(2021) Peta Hill et al.   Cells

Molecular Composition of Heterochromatin and Its Contribution to Chromosome Variation in the Microtus thomasi/Microtus atticus Species Complex

(2021) Michail Rovatsos et al.   Genes

First report of sex chromosomes in night lizards (Scincoidea: Xantusiidae)

(2020) Stuart V Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Viviparous reptile regarded to have temperature-dependent sex determination has old XY chromosomes

(2020) Paola Cornejo-Páramo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Sex is determined by XX/XY sex chromosomes in Australasian side-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae)

(2020) Sofia Mazzoleni et al.   Scientific Reports

Interstitial Telomeric Repeats Are Rare in Turtles

(2020) Lorenzo Clemente et al.   Genes

Mixed‐sex offspring produced via cryptic parthenogenesis in a lizard

(2020) Lukáš Kratochvíl et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

ZZ/ZW Sex Determination with Multiple Neo-Sex Chromosomes is Common in Madagascan Chameleons of the Genus Furcifer (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)

(2019) Rovatsos et al.   Genes

A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs

(2018) Daniel L. Jeffries et al.   Nature Communications

Cytogenetics of the Javan file snake (Acrochordus javanicus ) and the evolution of snake sex chromosomes

(2017) Michail Rovatsos et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Interstitial telomeric sequences in vertebrate chromosomes: Origin, function, instability and evolution

(2017) Alejandro D. Bolzán   MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH

Interstitial telomeric repeats-associated DNA breaks

(2017) Olga Shubernetskaya et al.   Nucleus

Evolutionary Dynamics of the W Chromosome in Caenophidian Snakes

(2017) Barbora Augstenová et al.   Genes

Interstitial telomeric repeats-associated DNA breaks

(2017) Olga Shubernetskaya et al.   Nucleus

Stable Cretaceous sex chromosomes enable molecular sexing in softshell turtles (Testudines: Trionychidae)

(2017) Michail Rovatsos et al.   Scientific Reports

Minute Y chromosomes and karyotype evolution in Madagascan iguanas (Squamata: Iguania: Opluridae)

(2016) Marie Altmanová et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mixed-Up Sex Chromosomes: Identification of Sex Chromosomes in the X1X1X2X2/X1X2Y System of the Legless Lizards of the Genus Lialis (Squamata: Gekkota: Pygopodidae)

(2016) Michail Rovatsos et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Amplification of microsatellite repeat motifs is associated with the evolutionary differentiation and heterochromatinization of sex chromosomes in Sauropsida

(2015) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Interstitial Telomeric Motifs in Squamate Reptiles: When the Exceptions Outnumber the Rule

(2015) Michail Rovatsos et al.   PLoS One

Highly Differentiated ZW Sex Microchromosomes in the Australian Varanus Species Evolved through Rapid Amplification of Repetitive Sequences

(2014) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   PLoS One

A ZZ/ZW microchromosome system in the spiny softshell turtle, Apalone spinifera, reveals an intriguing sex chromosome conservation in Trionychidae

(2013) Daleen Badenhorst et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Genome rearrangements caused by interstitial telomeric sequences in yeast

(2013) A. Y. Aksenova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid, independent, and extensive amplification of telomeric repeats in pericentromeric regions in karyotypes of arvicoline rodents

(2011) M. Th. Rovatsos et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) Have Highly Conserved Karyotypes as Revealed by Chromosome Painting

(2010) M. Giovannotti et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Telomeric repeats far from the ends: mechanisms of origin and role in evolution

(2009) A. Ruiz-Herrera et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

SEX REVERSAL: A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH FOR SEX CHROMOSOMES?

(2009) Nicolas Perrin   EVOLUTION

Isolation and development of a molecular sex marker for Bassiana duperreyi, a lizard with XX/XY sex chromosomes and temperature-induced sex reversal

(2009) Alexander E. Quinn et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS