Nature Genetics Advance Online Publication Avian W and Mammalian Y Chromosomes Convergently Retained Dosage-sensitive Regulators
Nature Genetics Advance Online Publication Avian W and Mammalian Y Chromosomes Convergently Retained Dosage-sensitive Regulators
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D. W. Bellott;H. Skaletsky;Ting-Jan Cho;L. Brown;Devin P. Locke;Nancy F. Chen;S. Galkina;Tatyana Pyntikova;Natalia Koutseva;Tina Graves;Colin L. Kremitzki;W. Warren;A. Clark;E. Gaginskaya;R. Wilson;D. Page
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D. W. Bellott;H. Skaletsky;Ting-Jan Cho;L. Brown;Devin P. Locke;Nancy F. Chen;S. Galkina;Tatyana Pyntikova;Natalia Koutseva;Tina Graves;Colin L. Kremitzki;W. Warren;A. Clark;E. Gaginskaya;R. Wilson;D. Page
In birds and mammals, one pair of chromosomes differs between males and females. In birds, females are ZW and males are ZZ; in mammals, females are XX and males are XY. The sex chromosomes of birds and mammals are not orthologous: genes that are sex linked in birds are autosomal in mammals, and vice versa 1–3. The orthologs of chicken sex-linked genes are found on human autosomes 5, 9, and 18, while the orthologs of human sex-linked genes are found on chicken autosomes 1 and 4 (refs. 1–4). The orthologs of sex-linked genes from birds and mammals are found on separate autosomes in outgroup species, like fish, indicating that the sex chromosomes of birds and mammals evolved independently, from what were once ordinary auto-somes in the common ancestor 4. Although the avian ZW sex chromosomes are the mirror image of the mammalian XY pair with respect to sex, these two chromosome pairs followed parallel evolutionary trajectories. In each lineage, a series of events, most likely inversions on the sex-specific (W or Y) chromosome, suppressed crossing-over between the sex chromosomes , leading to the formation of evolutionary strata 5–7. In the absence of crossing-over, the sex-specific W and Y chromosomes diverged from their counterparts, the Z and X chromosomes. The Z and X chromosomes retained 98% of the genes that existed on the ancestral autosomes 4,8. In contrast, the sex-specific W and Y chromosomes became subject to genetic decay 9. Few ancestral genes remain on mammalian Y chromosomes; the opossum Y chromosome was among the most conservative, retaining 4–5% of ancestral genes, while decay was more severe on the mouse Y chromosome, where only 1% of ancestral genes remain 10,11. The extent of divergence between the Z and W chromosomes varies widely across birds, from emu and ostrich—where two-thirds of the Z chromosome still crosses over with the W chromosome in lengthy pseudoautosomal regions—to the chicken, where the Z and W chromosomes are almost completely differentiated 7. The current understanding of the biology and evolution of sex-specific chromosomes is largely based upon the reference sequences of several male-specific Y chromosomes 10–15. Vertebrate sex chromosomes commonly contain ampliconic sequences, long stretches of duplicated sequences that have high nucleotide identity 4,8,10–15. Resolving these sequences requires a methodology with an extraordinary level of accuracy and precision—specifically, the sequencing of large-insert clones derived from a single haplotype. High-quality, clone-based Y-chromosome reference sequences have identified two …