Mammalian X homolog acts as sex chromosome in lacertid lizards

Low rate of interchromosomal rearrangements during old radiation of gekkotan lizards (Squamata: Gekkota)

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Restriction Site-Associated DNA Sequencing (RAD-seq) Reveals an Extraordinary Number of Transitions among Gecko Sex-Determining Systems

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

(2015) Clare E. Holleley et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary stability of sex chromosomes in snakes

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Improving the ostrich genome assembly using optical mapping data

(2015) Jilin Zhang et al.   GigaScience

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

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

Over-expression of DMRT1 induces the male pathway in embryonic chicken gonads

(2014) Luke S. Lambeth et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

CONSERVED SEX CHROMOSOMES ACROSS ADAPTIVELY RADIATEDANOLISLIZARDS

(2014) Michail Rovatsos et al.   EVOLUTION

Involvement of Androgen Receptor in Sex Determination in an Amphibian Species

(2014) Jun Fujii 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

Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa

(2014) Q. Zhou et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic analysis of theLacerta agilissubspecies complex

(2014) Claudia Andres et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Co-option of Sox3 as the male-determining factor on the Y chromosome in the fish Oryzias dancena

(2014) Yusuke Takehana et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic identification and characterization of the pseudoautosomal region in highly differentiated avian sex chromosomes

(2014) Linnéa Smeds et al.   Nature Communications

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

Novel X-Linked Genes Revealed by Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Green Anole, Anolis carolinensis

(2014) Michail Rovatsos et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

(2014) Doris Bachtrog et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome reannotation of the lizard Anolis carolinensis based on 14 adult and embryonic deep transcriptomes

(2013) Walter L Eckalbar et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

Neo-sex chromosomes and adaptive potential in tortricid pests

(2013) P. Nguyen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2013) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Primer-BLAST: A tool to design target-specific primers for polymerase chain reaction

(2012) Jian Ye et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Deep ancestry of mammalian X chromosome revealed by comparison with the basal tetrapod Xenopus tropicalis

(2012) Jaroslav Mácha et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Conservation of chromosomes syntenic with avian autosomes in squamate reptiles revealed by comparative chromosome painting

(2012) Martina Pokorná et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Are some chromosomes particularly good at sex? Insights from amniotes

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

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

(2011) Jessica Alföldi et al.   NATURE

Physical mapping of the elephant X chromosome: conservation of gene order over 105 million years

(2009) Claudia Leticia Rodríguez Delgado et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

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

(2009) Craig A. Smith et al.   NATURE

Phylogeny of sex-determining mechanisms in squamate reptiles: are sex chromosomes an evolutionary trap?

(2009) MARTINA POKORNÁ et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Hybrids of Darevskia valentini, D. armeniaca and D. unisexualis from a sympatric population in Armenia

(2008) Felix Danielyan et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

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

(2008) Aya Kawai et al.   CHROMOSOMA