ArticleNature communications2018
Long-term experimental hybridisation results in the evolution of a new sex chromosome in swordtail fish.
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- The origin, evolution, and translocation of sex chromosomes in Silurus catfish mediated by transposons.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Sex Chromosome Turnovers and Stability in Snakes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Phylogenomic analyses of all species of swordtail fishes (genus Xiphophorus) show that hybridization preceded speciation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Sex chromosome turnover plays an important role in the maintenance of barriers to post-speciation introgression in willows.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Elasmobranch genome sequencing reveals evolutionary trends of vertebrate karyotype organization.Genome research · 2023Article
- When does the female bias arise? Insights from the sex determination cascade of a flea beetle with a strongly skewed sex ratio.Functional & integrative genomics · 2023Article
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- Origin and chromatin remodeling of young X/Y sex chromosomes in catfish with sexual plasticity.National science review · 2023Article
- Master-Key Regulators of Sex Determination in Fish and Other Vertebrates-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly Reveals Dynamic Sex Chromosomes in Neotropical Leaf-Litter Geckos (Sphaerodactylidae: Sphaerodactylus).The Journal of heredity · 2022Article
- Something Fishy about Siamese Fighting Fish (Cells · 2022Article
- Heterochiasmy and the establishment of gsdf as a novel sex determining gene in Atlantic halibut.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Transposon-induced epigenetic silencing in the X chromosome as a novel form of dmrt1 expression regulation during sex determination in the fighting fish.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Genome-Wide SNP Analysis of Hybrid Clariid Fish Reflects the Existence of Polygenic Sex-Determination in the Lineage.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- The Developmental and Genetic Architecture of the Sexually Selected Male Ornament of Swordtails.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- How to identify sex chromosomes and their turnover.Molecular ecology · 2019Review
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Abstract
The remarkable diversity of sex determination mechanisms known in fish may be fuelled by exceptionally high rates of sex chromosome turnovers or transitions. However, the evolutionary causes and genomic mechanisms underlying this variation and instability are yet to be understood. Here we report on an over 30-year evolutionary experiment in which we tested the genomic consequences of hybridisation and selection between two Xiphophorus fish species with different sex chromosome systems. We find that introgression and imposing selection for pigmentation phenotypes results in the retention of an unexpectedly large maternally derived genomic region. During the hybridisation process, the sex-determining region of the X chromosome from one parental species was translocated to an autosome in the hybrids leading to the evolution of a new sex chromosome. Our results highlight the complexity of factors contributing to patterns observed in hybrid genomes, and we experimentally demonstrate that hybridisation can catalyze rapid evolution of a new sex chromosome.
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