Origin of Amniote Sex Chromosomes: An Ancestral Super-Sex Chromosome, or Common Requirements?

The 3D Genome as Moderator of Chromosomal Communication

(2016) Job Dekker et al.   CELL

Cytogenetic Insights into the Evolution of Chromosomes and Sex Determination Reveal Striking Homology of Turtle Sex Chromosomes to Amphibian Autosomes

(2016) Eugenia E. Montiel et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Mammalian X homolog acts as sex chromosome in lacertid lizards

(2016) M Rovatsos et al.   HEREDITY

Unique sex chromosome systems in Ellobius: How do male XX chromosomes recombine and undergo pachytene chromatin inactivation?

(2016) Sergey Matveevsky et al.   Scientific Reports

Sex reversal triggers the rapid transition from genetic to temperature-dependent sex

(2015) Clare E. Holleley et al.   NATURE

Evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes and dosage compensation

(2015) Jennifer A. Marshall Graves   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Coexistence of Y, W, and Z sex chromosomes inXenopus tropicalis

(2015) Álvaro S. Roco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in snakes

(2015) Michail Rovatsos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Numerous Transitions of Sex Chromosomes in Diptera

(2015) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Genome 10K Project: A Way Forward

(2015) Klaus-Peter Koepfli et al.   Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

What was the ancestral sex-determining mechanism in amniote vertebrates?

(2015) Martina Johnson Pokorná et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Karyotype Reorganization in the Hokou Gecko (Gekko hokouensis, Gekkonidae): The Process of Microchromosome Disappearance in Gekkota

(2015) Kornsorn Srikulnath et al.   PLoS One

Cretaceous park of sex determination: sex chromosomes are conserved across iguanas

(2014) M. Rovatsos et al.   Biology Letters

A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping

(2014) Suhas S.P. Rao et al.   CELL

Identification of the linkage group of the Z sex chromosomes of the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis, Lacertidae) and elucidation of karyotype evolution in lacertid lizards

(2014) Kornsorn Srikulnath et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Non-Homologous Sex Chromosomes in Two Geckos (Gekkonidae: Gekkota) with Female Heterogamety

(2014) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Mammalian Y chromosomes retain widely expressed dosage-sensitive regulators

(2014) Daniel W. Bellott et al.   NATURE

Origins and functional evolution of Y chromosomes across mammals

(2014) Diego Cortez et al.   NATURE

Genomicus update 2015: KaryoView and MatrixView provide a genome-wide perspective to multispecies comparative genomics

(2014) Alexandra Louis et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2014) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   PLoS One

The Staurotypus Turtles and Aves Share the Same Origin of Sex Chromosomes but Evolved Different Types of Heterogametic Sex Determination

(2014) Taiki Kawagoshi et al.   PLoS One

Mutations in the Testis-Specific Enhancer of SOX9 in the SRY Independent Sex-Determining Mechanism in the Genus Tokudaia

(2014) Ryutaro Kimura et al.   PLoS One

Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa

(2014) Q. Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Sequence and gene content of a large fragment of a lizard sex chromosome and evaluation of candidate sex differentiating gene R-spondin 1

(2013) Tariq Ezaz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

Molecular cytogenetic map of the central bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps (Squamata: Agamidae)

(2013) M. J. Young et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Karyotype evolution in monitor lizards: cross-species chromosome mapping of cDNA reveals highly conserved synteny and gene order in the Toxicofera clade

(2013) Kornsorn Srikulnath et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Novel sex-determining genes in fish and sex chromosome evolution

(2013) Kiyoshi Kikuchi et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

ANOLISSEX CHROMOSOMES ARE DERIVED FROM A SINGLE ANCESTRAL PAIR

(2013) Tony Gamble et al.   EVOLUTION

HOMOLOGOUS SEX CHROMOSOMES IN THREE DEEPLY DIVERGENT ANURAN SPECIES

(2013) Alan Brelsford et al.   EVOLUTION

Reversal of an ancient sex chromosome to an autosome in Drosophila

(2013) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   NATURE

Ensembl 2014

(2013) Paul Flicek et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Inference of the Protokaryotypes of Amniotes and Tetrapods and the Evolutionary Processes of Microchromosomes from Comparative Gene Mapping

(2013) Yoshinobu Uno et al.   PLoS One

Sex chromosome dosage compensation: definitely not for everyone

(2013) Judith E. Mank   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Comparative Sex Chromosome Genomics in Snakes: Differentiation, Evolutionary Strata, and Lack of Global Dosage Compensation

(2013) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Dosage Compensation of the Sex Chromosomes

(2012) Christine M. Disteche   Annual Review of Genetics

Intra-genomic GC heterogeneity in sauropsids: evolutionary insights from cDNA mapping and GC3 profiling in snake

(2012) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Are some chromosomes particularly good at sex? Insights from amniotes

(2012) Denis O’Meally et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

How to evolve new vertebrate sex determining genes

(2012) Jennifer A. Marshall Graves   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Evolutionary transitions between mechanisms of sex determination in vertebrates

(2011) A. E. Quinn et al.   Biology Letters

General lack of global dosage compensation in ZZ/ZW systems? Broadening the perspective with RNA-seq

(2011) Jochen BW Wolf et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Strong conservation of the bird Z chromosome in reptilian genomes is revealed by comparative painting despite 275 million years divergence

(2011) Martina Pokorná et al.   CHROMOSOMA

The origin and differentiation process of X and Y chromosomes of the black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis, Geoemydidae, Testudines)

(2011) Taiki Kawagoshi et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

The Y chromosome of the Okinawa spiny rat, Tokudaia muenninki, was rescued through fusion with an autosome

(2011) Chie Murata et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Additional copies of CBX2 in the genomes of males of mammals lacking SRY, the Amami spiny rat (Tokudaia osimensis) and the Tokunoshima spiny rat (Tokudaia tokunoshimensis)

(2011) Asato Kuroiwa et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Evidence for avian cell autonomous sex identity (CASI) and implications for the sex-determination process?

(2011) M. Clinton et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Evolutionary history of novel genes on the tammar wallaby Y chromosome: Implications for sex chromosome evolution

(2011) V. J. Murtagh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

(2011) Jessica Alföldi et al.   NATURE

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Non-homologous sex chromosomes of birds and snakes share repetitive sequences

(2010) Denis O’Meally et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Sex Chromosome Evolution in Lizards: Independent Origins and Rapid Transitions

(2010) T. Ezaz et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of SOX3 as an XX male sex reversal gene in mice and humans

(2010) Edwina Sutton et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Chromosome Territories

(2010) T. Cremer et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

(2010) Jennifer A Marshall Graves et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Molecular marker suggests rapid changes of sex-determining mechanisms in Australian dragon lizards

(2009) Tariq Ezaz et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

The ZW sex microchromosomes of an Australian dragon lizard share no homology with those of other reptiles or birds

(2009) Tariq Ezaz et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Karyotypic evolution in squamate reptiles: comparative gene mapping revealed highly conserved linkage homology between the butterfly lizard (Leiolepis reevesii rubritaeniata, Agamidae, Lacertilia) and the Japanese four-striped rat snake (Elaphe quadrivirgata, Colubridae, Serpentes)

(2009) Kornsorn Srikulnath et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

An Appraisal of Nuclear Organisation in Interphase Embryonic Fibroblasts of Chicken, Turkey and Duck

(2009) B.M. Skinner et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

The ZW Micro-Sex Chromosomes of the Chinese Soft-Shelled Turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis, Trionychidae, Testudines) Have the Same Origin as Chicken Chromosome 15

(2009) T. Kawagoshi et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

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

(2009) Craig A. Smith et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) Aya Kawai et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Comparative chromosome mapping of sex-linked genes and identification of sex chromosomal rearrangements in the Japanese wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa, Ranidae) with ZW and XY sex chromosome systems

(2008) Yoshinobu Uno et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Bird-like sex chromosomes of platypus imply recent origin of mammal sex chromosomes

(2008) F. Veyrunes et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A W-linked DM-domain gene, DM-W, participates in primary ovary development in Xenopus laevis

(2008) S. Yoshimoto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Evolution of Epigenetic Regulators CTCF and BORIS/CTCFL in Amniotes

(2008) Timothy A. Hore et al.   PLoS Genetics