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ArticlePeerJ2024

Worse than nothing at all: the inequality of fusions joining autosomes to the PAR and non-PAR portions of sex chromosomes.

Kayla T Wilhoit, Emmarie P Alexander, Heath Blackmon

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Article in PeerJ, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Genomic origins and evolution of neo-sex chromosomes in Pacific Island birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kayla T WilhoitBiomedical Sciences Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America.
Emmarie P AlexanderInterdisciplinary Program in Genetics and Genomics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America.
Heath BlackmonDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America.

Funding

Integrating theory, genomics, and comparative approaches to break barriers to the understanding of genome structure and sex chromosome evolution.R35GM138098 · NIGMS · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI BLACKMON, HEATH · 2020 to 2024
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosomal fusions play an integral role in genome remodeling and karyotype evolution. Fusions that join a sex chromosome to an autosome are particularly abundant across the tree of life. However, previous models on the establishment of such fusions have not accounted for the physical structure of the chromosomes. We predict a fusion joining an autosome to the pseudoautosomal region (PAR) of a sex chromosome will not remain stable, and the fusion will switch from the X to the Y chromosome each generation due to recombination. We have produced a forward-time population genetic simulation to explore the outcomes of fusions to both the PAR and non-PAR of sex chromosomes. The model can simulate the fusion of an autosome containing a sexually antagonistic locus to either the PAR or non-PAR end of a sex chromosome. Our model is diploid, two-locus, and biallelic. Our results show a clear pattern where fusions to the non-PAR are favored in the presence of sexual antagonism, whereas fusions to the PAR are disfavored in the presence of sexual antagonism.

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Sex ChromosomesAnimalsFemaleHumansMaleModels, GeneticPseudoautosomal RegionsFusionPopulation geneticsSex chromosomeSexual antagonism

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PMID39071118
PMCPMC11276758

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