Turtles of the genera Geoemyda and Pangshura (Testudines: Geoemydidae) lack differentiated sex chromosomes: the end of a 40-year error cascade for Pangshura

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

Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles

(2017) Anieli G. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Dynamics of the W Chromosome in Caenophidian Snakes

(2017) Barbora Augstenová et al.   Genes

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

Discovery of the youngest sex chromosomes reveals first case of convergent co-option of ancestral autosomes in turtles

(2016) E. E. Montiel et al.   CHROMOSOMA

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

Conservation of sex chromosomes in lacertid lizards

(2016) Michail Rovatsos et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Kazumi Matsubara et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Differentiation of Sex Chromosomes and Karyotype Characterisation in the Dragonsnake Xenodermus javanicus (Squamata: Xenodermatidae)

(2015) Michail Rovatsos et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in snakes

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

Female heterogamety in Madagascar chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae: Furcifer): differentiation of sex and neo-sex chromosomes

(2015) Michail Rovatsos et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2015) Martina Johnson Pokorná et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2014) M. Rovatsos et al.   Biology Letters

Sex determination in Madagascar geckos of the genus Paroedura (Squamata: Gekkonidae): are differentiated sex chromosomes indeed so evolutionary stable?

(2014) Martina Koubová et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

qPCR-based molecular sexing by copy number variation in rRNA genes and its utility for sex identification in soft-shell turtles

(2014) Robert Literman et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

The determinants of the molecular substitution process in turtles

(2012) J. M. LourençO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

CHROMOSOME NUMBER AND SEX DETERMINATION COEVOLVE IN TURTLES

(2011) Nicole Valenzuela et al.   EVOLUTION

A Review of Sex Determining Mechanisms in Geckos (Gekkota: Squamata)

(2010) T. Gamble   Sexual Development

An XX/XY heteromorphic sex chromosome system in the Australian chelid turtle Emydura macquarii: A new piece in the puzzle of sex chromosome evolution in turtles

(2008) Pedro Alonzo Martinez et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH