A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes.

Heiner Kuhl,Yann Guiguen,Christin Höhne,Eva Kreuz,Kang Du,Christophe Klopp,Céline Lopez-Roques,Elena Santidrian Yebra-Pimentel,Mitică Ciorpac,Jörn Gessner,Daniela Holostenco,Wibke Kleiner,Klaus Kohlmann,Dunja K. Lamatsch,Dmitry Yu. Prokopov,Anastasia Bestin,Emmanuel Bonpunt,Bastien Debeuf,Pierrick Haffray,Romain Morvezen,Pierre Patrice,Radu M. Suciu,Ron P. Dirks,Sven Wuertz,Werner Kloas,Manfred Schartl,Matthias Stöck

A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes.

2021

Several hypotheses explain the prevalence of undifferentiated sex chromosomes in poikilothermic vertebrates. Turnovers change the master sex determination gene, the sex chromosome or the sex determ...

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Genome
Evolutionary biology
Biology
Vertebrate
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Undifferentiated Sex
Gene
Sturgeon
Chromosome

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