ReviewMolecular reproduction and development2011
Heteromorphic sex chromosomes: navigating meiosis without a homologous partner.
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- Loss of meiotic double strand breaks triggers recruitment of recombination-independent pro-crossover factors in C. elegans spermatogenesis.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- The long and short of hyperdivergent regions.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2025Review
- The Cause-Effect Model of Master Sex Determination Gene Acquisition and the Evolution of Sex Chromosomes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Pachytene piRNAs control discrete meiotic events during spermatogenesis and restrict gene expression in space and time.Science advances · 2024Article
- Chromatin landscape, DSB levels, and cKU-70/80 contribute to patterning of meiotic DSB processing along chromosomes in C. elegans.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Does the Pachytene Checkpoint, a Feature of Meiosis, Filter Out Mistakes in Double-Strand DNA Break Repair and as a side-Effect Strongly Promote Adaptive Speciation?Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Bisection of the X chromosome disrupts the initiation of chromosome silencing during meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Transcriptomics of Meiosis in the Male Mouse.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Plasticity in the Meiotic Epigenetic Landscape of Sex Chromosomes in Caenorhabditis Species.Genetics · 2016Article
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- Expression and epigenomic landscape of the sex chromosomes in mouse post-meiotic male germ cells.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2016Article
- Genomic identification and characterization of the pseudoautosomal region in highly differentiated avian sex chromosomes.Nature communications · 2014Article
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Abstract
Accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis relies on homology between the maternal and paternal chromosomes. Yet by definition, sex chromosomes of the heterogametic sex lack a homologous partner. Recent studies in a number of systems have shed light on the unique meiotic behavior of heteromorphic sex chromosomes, and highlight both the commonalities and differences in divergent species. During meiotic prophase, the homology-dependent processes of pairing, synapsis, and recombination have been modified in many different ways to ensure segregation of heteromorphic sex chromosomes at the first meiotic division. Additionally, an almost universal feature of heteromorphic sex chromosomes during meiosis is transcriptional silencing, or meiotic sex chromosome inactivation, an essential process proposed to prevent expression of genes deleterious to meiosis in the heterogametic sex as well as to shield unpaired sex chromosomes from recognition by meiotic checkpoints. Comparative analyses of the meiotic behavior of sex chromosomes in nematodes, mammals, and birds reveal important conserved features as well as provide insight into sex chromosome evolution.
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