Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa

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Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa. / Zhou, Qi; Zhang, Jilin; Bachtrog, Doris; An, Na; Huang, Quanfei; Jarvis, Erich D.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Zhang, Guojie.

In: Science, Vol. 346, No. 6215, 1246338, 2014.

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Zhou, Q, Zhang, J, Bachtrog, D, An, N, Huang, Q, Jarvis, ED, Gilbert, MTP & Zhang, G 2014, 'Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa', Science, vol. 346, no. 6215, 1246338. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246338

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Zhou, Q., Zhang, J., Bachtrog, D., An, N., Huang, Q., Jarvis, E. D., Gilbert, M. T. P., & Zhang, G. (2014). Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa. Science, 346(6215), [1246338]. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246338

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Zhou Q, Zhang J, Bachtrog D, An N, Huang Q, Jarvis ED et al. Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa. Science. 2014;346(6215). 1246338. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246338

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Zhou, Qi ; Zhang, Jilin ; Bachtrog, Doris ; An, Na ; Huang, Quanfei ; Jarvis, Erich D. ; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. ; Zhang, Guojie. / Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa. In: Science. 2014 ; Vol. 346, No. 6215.

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abstract = "Sex-specific chromosomes, like the W of most female birds and the Y of male mammals, usually have lost most genes owing to a lack of recombination.We analyze newly available genomes of 17 bird species representing the avian phylogenetic range, and find that more than half of them do not have as fully degenerated W chromosomes as that of chicken. We show that avian sex chromosomes harbor tremendous diversity among species in their composition of pseudoautosomal regions and degree of Z/W differentiation. Punctuated events of shared or lineage-specific recombination suppression have produced a gradient of {"}evolutionary strata{"} along the Z chromosome, which initiates from the putative avian sex-determining gene DMRT1 and ends at the pseudoautosomal region.W-linked genes are subject to ongoing functional decay after recombination was suppressed, and the tempo of degeneration slows down in older strata. Overall, we unveil a complex history of avian sex chromosome evolution.",
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