ArticleNature communications2018
Multiple convergent supergene evolution events in mating-type chromosomes.
Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed.
- Distinct genomic architectures but the same gene underlie the convergent evolution of a plant supergene.Science advances · 2026Article
- Multiple Origins of a Sex Ratio Supergene in Formica Ants.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Ancient but dynamic: structural expansion, massive gene duplication, and transposable element colonization in a supergene controlling ant social organization.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Whole-genome sequencing reveals a possible molecular basis of sex determination in the dioecious wild yam Dioscorea tokoro.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Stepwise recombination suppression around the mating-type locus associated with a diploid-like life cycle in Schizothecium fungi.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- The complex evolution and genomic dynamics of mating-type loci in Cryptococcus and Kwoniella.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- EASYstrata: an all-in-one workflow for genome annotation and genomic divergence analysis.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2025Article
- Tracing the evolution and genomic dynamics of mating-type loci inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Fire Ant Social Chromosome Exerts a Major Influence on Genome Regulation.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Repeated loss of function at HD mating-type genes and of recombination in anther-smut fungi.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Genetic differentiation in the MAT-proximal region is not sufficient for suppressing recombination in Podospora anserina.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
- An Inversion Polymorphism Under Balancing Selection, Involving Giant Mobile Elements, in an Invasive Fungal Pathogen.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Twelve newly assembled jasmine chloroplast genomes: unveiling genomic diversity, phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns among Oleaceae and Jasminum species.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Social antagonism facilitates supergene expansion in ants.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in the non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in anther-smut fungi.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Frequent transitions in mating-type locus chromosomal organization inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Recent Evolution of a Maternally Acting Sex-Determining Supergene in a Fly with Single-Sex Broods.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Insights into the Genomics of Clownfish Adaptive Radiation: The Genomic Substrate of the Diversification.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Comparative genomics of smut fungi suggest the ability of meiosis and mating in asexual species of the genus Pseudozyma (Ustilaginales).BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Frequent transitions in mating-type locus chromosomal organization inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Convergent adaptation provides unique insights into the predictability of evolution and ultimately into processes of biological diversification. Supergenes (beneficial gene linkage) are striking examples of adaptation, but little is known about their prevalence or evolution. A recent study on anther-smut fungi documented supergene formation by rearrangements linking two key mating-type loci, controlling pre- and post-mating compatibility. Here further high-quality genome assemblies reveal four additional independent cases of chromosomal rearrangements leading to regions of suppressed recombination linking these mating-type loci in closely related species. Such convergent transitions in genomic architecture of mating-type determination indicate strong selection favoring linkage of mating-type loci into cosegregating supergenes. We find independent evolutionary strata (stepwise recombination suppression) in several species, with extensive rearrangements, gene losses, and transposable element accumulation. We thus show remarkable convergence in mating-type chromosome evolution, recurrent supergene formation, and repeated evolution of similar phenotypes through different genomic changes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.