Sex chromosome evolution : Historical insights and future perspectives
Abbott, Jessica K. LU
; Nordén, Anna K.
LU
and Hansson, Bengt
LU
(2017)
In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
284(1854).
- Abstract
Many separate-sexed organisms have sex chromosomes controlling sex determination. Sex chromosomes often have reduced recombination, specialized (frequently sex-specific) gene content, dosage compensation and heteromorphic size. Research on sex determination and sex chromosome evolution has increased over the past decade and is today a very active field. However, some areas within the field have not received as much attention as others.We therefore believe that a historic overviewof key findings and empirical discoveries will put current thinking into context and help us better understand where to go next. Here, we present a timeline of important conceptual and analytical models, as well as empirical studies that have advanced the field... (More)
Many separate-sexed organisms have sex chromosomes controlling sex determination. Sex chromosomes often have reduced recombination, specialized (frequently sex-specific) gene content, dosage compensation and heteromorphic size. Research on sex determination and sex chromosome evolution has increased over the past decade and is today a very active field. However, some areas within the field have not received as much attention as others.We therefore believe that a historic overviewof key findings and empirical discoveries will put current thinking into context and help us better understand where to go next. Here, we present a timeline of important conceptual and analytical models, as well as empirical studies that have advanced the field and changed our understanding of the evolution of sex chromosomes. Finally, we highlight gaps in our knowledge so far and propose some specific areas within the field that we recommend a greater focus on in the future, including the role of ecology in sex chromosome evolution and newmultilocus models of sex chromosome divergence.
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- author
- Abbott, Jessica K.
LU
; Nordén, Anna K.
LU
and Hansson, Bengt
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-05-17
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Degeneration, Dosage compensation, Heteromorphic, Homomorphic, Timeline, Turnover
- in
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- volume
- 284
- issue
- 1854
- article number
- 20162806
- publisher
- Royal Society Publishing
- external identifiers
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- pmid:28469017
- wos:000404425100024
- scopus:85019169982
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- DOI
- 10.1098/rspb.2016.2806
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 0bd6ea0e-9e60-4640-9200-9814394c4277
- date added to LUP
- 2017-06-13 07:10:54
- date last changed
- 2025-01-07 15:11:36
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