ArticleBiology letters2012
Triploid plover female provides support for a role of the W chromosome in avian sex determination.
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- Sex-Linked Dilution Colour in the European Domestic Goose Indicated To Be a 1-Bp Deletion in the Melan-A Gene.Animal genetics · 2026Article
- Germline-Restricted Chromosome (GRC) in Diploid and Polyploid Spermatocytes of the Eurasian Bullfinch,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- Overview of Avian Sex Reversal.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Lack of age-related mosaic loss of W chromosome in long-lived birds.Biology letters · 2022Article
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- Logical modelling uncovers developmental constraints for primary sex determination of chicken gonads.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
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- Avian sex, sex chromosomes, and dosage compensation in the age of genomics.Chromosome research : an international journal on the molecular, supramolecular and evolutionary aspects of chromosome biology · 2014Review
- Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle.Nature genetics · 2014Article
- Sex-biased expression of sex-differentiating genes FOXL2 and FGF9 in American alligators, alligator Mississippiensis.Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation · 2013Article
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Abstract
Two models, Z Dosage and Dominant W, have been proposed to explain sex determination in birds, in which males are characterized by the presence of two Z chromosomes, and females are hemizygous with a Z and a W chromosome. According to the Z Dosage model, high dosage of a Z-linked gene triggers male development, whereas the Dominant W model postulates that a still unknown W-linked gene triggers female development. Using 33 polymorphic microsatellite markers, we describe a female triploid Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus identified by characteristic triallelic genotypes at 14 autosomal markers that produced viable diploid offspring. Chromatogram analysis showed that the sex chromosome composition of this female was ZZW. Together with two previously described ZZW female birds, our results suggest a prominent role for a female determining gene on the W chromosome. These results imply that avian sex determination is more dynamic and complex than currently envisioned.
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