Sex-limited chromosomes and non-reproductive traits
Cīrulis, Aivars LU ; Hansson, Bengt LU
and Abbott, Jessica K.
LU
(2022)
In BMC Biology
20.
- Abstract
Sex chromosomes are typically viewed as having originated from a pair of autosomes, and differentiated as the sex-limited chromosome (e.g. Y) has degenerated by losing most genes through cessation of recombination. While often thought that degenerated sex-limited chromosomes primarily affect traits involved in sex determination and sex cell production, accumulating evidence suggests they also influence traits not sex-limited or directly involved in reproduction. Here, we provide an overview of the effects of sex-limited chromosomes on non-reproductive traits in XY, ZW or UV sex determination systems, and discuss evolutionary processes maintaining variation at sex-limited chromosomes and molecular mechanisms affecting non-reproductive... (More)
Sex chromosomes are typically viewed as having originated from a pair of autosomes, and differentiated as the sex-limited chromosome (e.g. Y) has degenerated by losing most genes through cessation of recombination. While often thought that degenerated sex-limited chromosomes primarily affect traits involved in sex determination and sex cell production, accumulating evidence suggests they also influence traits not sex-limited or directly involved in reproduction. Here, we provide an overview of the effects of sex-limited chromosomes on non-reproductive traits in XY, ZW or UV sex determination systems, and discuss evolutionary processes maintaining variation at sex-limited chromosomes and molecular mechanisms affecting non-reproductive traits.
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- author
- Cīrulis, Aivars
LU
; Hansson, Bengt
LU
and Abbott, Jessica K.
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-07-06
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Gene expression, Heterochromatin, Loss of chromosome Y, Sex differences, UV chromosomes, W chromosome, Y chromosome
- in
- BMC Biology
- volume
- 20
- article number
- 156
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85133538218
- pmid:35794589
- ISSN
- 1741-7007
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12915-022-01357-5
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
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- a12e9fe9-389f-48b9-a15d-0512ce5c4260
- date added to LUP
- 2022-07-17 15:48:05
- date last changed
- 2024-06-27 19:27:14
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