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Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard
Non-avian reptiles, unlike mammals and birds, have undergone numerous sex determination changes. Casque-Headed Lizards have replaced the ancestral XY system shared across pleurodonts with a new pair of XY chromosomes. However, the evolutionary forces that triggered this transition have remained uncl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35797377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263804 |
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author | Suárez-Varón, Gabriel Mendoza-Cruz, Eva Acosta, Armando Villagrán-Santa Cruz, Maricela Cortez, Diego Hernández-Gallegos, Oswaldo |
author_facet | Suárez-Varón, Gabriel Mendoza-Cruz, Eva Acosta, Armando Villagrán-Santa Cruz, Maricela Cortez, Diego Hernández-Gallegos, Oswaldo |
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description | Non-avian reptiles, unlike mammals and birds, have undergone numerous sex determination changes. Casque-Headed Lizards have replaced the ancestral XY system shared across pleurodonts with a new pair of XY chromosomes. However, the evolutionary forces that triggered this transition have remained unclear. An interesting hypothesis suggests that species with intermediate states, with sex chromosomes but also thermal-induced sex reversal at specific incubation temperatures, could be more susceptible to sex determination turnovers. We contrasted genotypic data (presence/absence of the Y chromosome) against the histology of gonads of embryos from stages 35–37 incubated at various temperatures, including typical male-producing (26°C) and female-producing (32°C) temperatures. Our work apparently reports for the first time the histology of gonads, including morphological changes, from stages 35–37 of development in the family Corytophanidae. We also observed that all embryos developed hemipenes, suggesting sex-linked developmental heterochrony. We observed perfect concordance between genotype and phenotype at all temperatures. However, analysis of transcriptomic data from embryos incubated at 26°C and 32°C identified transcript variants of the chromatin modifiers JARID2 and KDM6B that have been linked to temperature-dependent sex determination in other reptiles. Our work tested the validity of a mixed sex determination system in the family Corytophanidae. We found that XY chromosomes are dominant; however, our work supports the hypothesis of a conserved transcriptional response to incubation temperatures across non-avian reptiles that could be a reminiscence of an ancestral sex determination system. |
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spelling | pubmed-92621792022-07-08 Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard Suárez-Varón, Gabriel Mendoza-Cruz, Eva Acosta, Armando Villagrán-Santa Cruz, Maricela Cortez, Diego Hernández-Gallegos, Oswaldo PLoS One Research Article Non-avian reptiles, unlike mammals and birds, have undergone numerous sex determination changes. Casque-Headed Lizards have replaced the ancestral XY system shared across pleurodonts with a new pair of XY chromosomes. However, the evolutionary forces that triggered this transition have remained unclear. An interesting hypothesis suggests that species with intermediate states, with sex chromosomes but also thermal-induced sex reversal at specific incubation temperatures, could be more susceptible to sex determination turnovers. We contrasted genotypic data (presence/absence of the Y chromosome) against the histology of gonads of embryos from stages 35–37 incubated at various temperatures, including typical male-producing (26°C) and female-producing (32°C) temperatures. Our work apparently reports for the first time the histology of gonads, including morphological changes, from stages 35–37 of development in the family Corytophanidae. We also observed that all embryos developed hemipenes, suggesting sex-linked developmental heterochrony. We observed perfect concordance between genotype and phenotype at all temperatures. However, analysis of transcriptomic data from embryos incubated at 26°C and 32°C identified transcript variants of the chromatin modifiers JARID2 and KDM6B that have been linked to temperature-dependent sex determination in other reptiles. Our work tested the validity of a mixed sex determination system in the family Corytophanidae. We found that XY chromosomes are dominant; however, our work supports the hypothesis of a conserved transcriptional response to incubation temperatures across non-avian reptiles that could be a reminiscence of an ancestral sex determination system. Public Library of Science 2022-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9262179/ /pubmed/35797377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263804 Text en © 2022 Suárez-Varón et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Suárez-Varón, Gabriel Mendoza-Cruz, Eva Acosta, Armando Villagrán-Santa Cruz, Maricela Cortez, Diego Hernández-Gallegos, Oswaldo Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title | Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title_full | Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title_fullStr | Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title_full_unstemmed | Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title_short | Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard |
title_sort | genetic determination and jarid2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in casque-headed lizard |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9262179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35797377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263804 |
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