ArticleGenetics2004
Shared forces of sex chromosome evolution in haploid-mating and diploid-mating organisms: Microbotryum violaceum and other model organisms.
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- Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in the non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in anther-smut fungi.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating-type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther-smut fungi.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2022Article
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- Differential Gene Expression between Fungal Mating Types Is Associated with Sequence Degeneration.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Multiple convergent supergene evolution events in mating-type chromosomes.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Comparative whole-genome analysis reveals artificial selection effects on Ustilago esculenta genome.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2017Article
- Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Fungal Sex: The Basidiomycota.Microbiology spectrum · 2017Review
- Transcriptional analysis of mating and pre-infection stages of the anther smut,Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2017Article
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- Introgression maintains the genetic integrity of the mating-type determining chromosome of the fungus Neurospora tetrasperma.Genome research · 2016Article
- Deciphering evolutionary strata on plant sex chromosomes and fungal mating-type chromosomes through compositional segmentation.Plant molecular biology · 2016Article
- Size Does Matter: Staging of Silene latifolia Floral Buds for Transcriptome Studies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2015Article
- Chaos of Rearrangements in the Mating-Type Chromosomes of the Anther-Smut Fungus Microbotryum lychnidis-dioicae.Genetics · 2015Article
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Abstract
It is usually posited that the most important factors contributing to sex chromosome evolution in diploids are the suppression of meiotic recombination and the asymmetry that results from one chromosome (the Y) being permanently heterozygous and the other (the X) being homozygous in half of the individuals involved in mating. To distinguish between the roles of these two factors, it would be valuable to compare sex chromosomes in diploid-mating organisms and organisms where mating compatibility is determined in the haploid stage. In this latter group, no such asymmetry occurs because the sex chromosomes are equally heterozygous. Here we show in the fungus Microbotryum violaceum that the chromosomes carrying the mating-type locus, and thus determining haploid-mating compatibility, are rich in transposable elements, dimorphic in size, and carry unequal densities of functional genes. Through analysis of available complete genomes, we also show that M. violaceum is, remarkably, more similar to humans and mice than to yeast, nematodes, or fruit flies with regard to the differential accumulation of transposable elements in the chromosomes determining mating compatibility vs. the autosomes. We conclude that restricted recombination, rather than asymmetrical sheltering, hemizygosity, or dosage compensation, is sufficient to account for the common sex chromosome characteristics.
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