Turnover of sex chromosomes induced by sexual conflict

G. S. van Doorn () and M. Kirkpatrick
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G. S. van Doorn: Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA
M. Kirkpatrick: Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 1 University Station C-0930, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

Nature, 2007, vol. 449, issue 7164, 909-912

Abstract: The genetic sex determination system is a rapidly evolving feature of the genome in many species. The master sex-determining gene moves frequently between chromosomes in some taxa, whereas in others more than one pair of chromosomes determines sex. This paper shows that these evolutionary patterns can result from genes with antagonistic effects: they can hijack sex determination from one chromosome to another.

Date: 2007
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