Do sex chromosomes of snakes, monitor lizards, and iguanian lizards result from multiple fission of an “ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome”?

Sex chromosomes in some amniotes share linkage homologies with distantly related taxa in regions orthologous to squamate reptile chromosome 2 (SR2) and the snake W sex chromosome. Thus, the SR2 and W chromosomes may formerly have been part of a larger ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome. Comparis...

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Published in:Chromosome research 2020-06, Vol.28 (2), p.209-228
Main Authors: Singchat, Worapong, Sillapaprayoon, Siwapech, Muangmai, Narongrit, Baicharoen, Sudarath, Indananda, Chantra, Duengkae, Prateep, Peyachoknagul, Surin, O’Connor, Rebecca E., Griffin, Darren K., Srikulnath, Kornsorn
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Language:English
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Animal Genetics and Genomics
Artificial chromosomes
Bacterial artificial chromosomes
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Butterflies & moths
Cell Biology
Chromosome 2
Gene mapping
Homology
Human Genetics
Life Sciences
Original Article
Plant Genetics and Genomics
Sex chromosomes
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Summary:Sex chromosomes in some amniotes share linkage homologies with distantly related taxa in regions orthologous to squamate reptile chromosome 2 (SR2) and the snake W sex chromosome. Thus, the SR2 and W chromosomes may formerly have been part of a larger ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome. Comparison of various sex chromosomal linkage homologies in Toxicofera with those in other amniotes offers an excellent model to assess key cytological differences, to understand the mechanisms of amniote sex chromosome evolution in each lineage and the existence of an ancestral amniote super-sex chromosome. Chromosome maps of four species of Toxicofera were constructed using bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) derived from chicken and zebra finch libraries containing amniote sex chromosomal linkages. Different macrochromosome linkage homologies were highly conserved among Toxicofera, and at least two BACs (CH261-125F1 and CH261-40D6) showed partial homology with sex chromosomes of amniotes associated with SR2, which supports the hypothesis of an ancestral super-sex chromosome with overlaps of partial linkage homologies. The present data also suggest a possible multiple fission mechanism of an ancestral super-sex chromosome, which resulted in further development of various sex chromosomal linkages of Toxicofera based on particular properties that favored the role of sex chromosomes.
ISSN:0967-3849
1573-6849
DOI:10.1007/s10577-020-09631-4