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Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches
Sex chromosome evolution is usually seen as a process that, once initiated, will inevitably progress toward an advanced stage of degeneration of the nonrecombining chromosome. However, despite evidence that avian sex chromosome evolution was initiated >100 Ma, ratite birds have been trapped in an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23329687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst009 |
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author | Adolfsson, Sofia Ellegren, Hans |
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description | Sex chromosome evolution is usually seen as a process that, once initiated, will inevitably progress toward an advanced stage of degeneration of the nonrecombining chromosome. However, despite evidence that avian sex chromosome evolution was initiated >100 Ma, ratite birds have been trapped in an arrested stage of sex chromosome divergence. We performed RNA sequencing of several tissues from male and female ostriches and assembled the transcriptome de novo. A total of 315 Z-linked genes fell into two categories: those that have equal expression level in the two sexes (for which Z–W recombination still occurs) and those that have a 2-fold excess of male expression (for which Z–W recombination has ceased). We suggest that failure to evolve dosage compensation has constrained sex chromosome divergence in this basal avian lineage. Our results indicate that dosage compensation is a prerequisite for, not only a consequence of, sex chromosome evolution. |
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spelling | pubmed-36033172013-03-20 Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches Adolfsson, Sofia Ellegren, Hans Mol Biol Evol Discoveries Sex chromosome evolution is usually seen as a process that, once initiated, will inevitably progress toward an advanced stage of degeneration of the nonrecombining chromosome. However, despite evidence that avian sex chromosome evolution was initiated >100 Ma, ratite birds have been trapped in an arrested stage of sex chromosome divergence. We performed RNA sequencing of several tissues from male and female ostriches and assembled the transcriptome de novo. A total of 315 Z-linked genes fell into two categories: those that have equal expression level in the two sexes (for which Z–W recombination still occurs) and those that have a 2-fold excess of male expression (for which Z–W recombination has ceased). We suggest that failure to evolve dosage compensation has constrained sex chromosome divergence in this basal avian lineage. Our results indicate that dosage compensation is a prerequisite for, not only a consequence of, sex chromosome evolution. Oxford University Press 2013-04 2013-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3603317/ /pubmed/23329687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst009 Text en © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Discoveries Adolfsson, Sofia Ellegren, Hans Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title | Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title_full | Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title_fullStr | Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title_full_unstemmed | Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title_short | Lack of Dosage Compensation Accompanies the Arrested Stage of Sex Chromosome Evolution in Ostriches |
title_sort | lack of dosage compensation accompanies the arrested stage of sex chromosome evolution in ostriches |
topic | Discoveries |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603317/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23329687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst009 |
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