Year: 2022

BATTLING FORCES. "The evolution of sex chromosomes is likely shaped by the interplay between sex-specific and sexually antagonistic forces, mechanistic constraints, and selective pressures to preserve the regulation of ancestral gene expression." https://lnkd.in/dX2rADH View in LinkedIn

US body clock scientists win Nobel prize http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/health/nobel-medicine-prize-circadian-rhythm/index.html View in LinkedIn

‘We are with you Catalunya’ – the revolt in Spain is bigger than flags and language. History is unfolding. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/02/catalans-independence-revolt-spain-independence-flags?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

SEX CHROMOSOMES. "We will restrict the term to chromosomes that carry the genes controlling male or female development, defining the male–female dichotomy in terms of gamete size differences, which are absent in other systems." https://lnkd.in/gCh5RAX View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. "Sex chromosomes originate from ordinary autosomes. Ancient sex-specific W or Y chromosomes, like that of female chicken or those of male mammals, usually have lost most functional genes, owing to a loss of recombination with their former homologs, the Z or X chromosomes." https://lnkd.in/gxyp7ei View in LinkedIn

STEPPED STRATA. "Such a recombination restriction occurred in a stepwise manner along most of the sex chromosomes in parallel in birds and mammals (creating so-called “evolutionary strata”), apart from small pseudoautosomal regions (PARs) that maintain recombination." https://lnkd.in/gxyp7ei View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF SEX CHROMOSOMES. "Structurally distinct sex chromosomes (X and Y) are the most familiar mode of genetic sex determination and have evolved independently in many different taxa." https://lnkd.in/ggJdV57 View in LinkedIn

PHYSICALLY DIFFERENT. "The X and Y (or Z and W) chromosomes are often morphologically distinguishable (heteromorphic), with the Y or W being largely heterochromatic and containing a high proportion of repetitive DNA." http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v95/n2/full/6800697a.html View in LinkedIn

"THE EVOLUTION of a pair of chromosomes that differ in appearance between males and females (heteromorphic sex chromosomes) has occurred repeatedly across plants and animals. Recent work has shown that the male heterogametic (XY) and female heterogametic (ZW) sex chromosomes evolved independently from different pairs of homomorphic autosomes in the common ancestor of birds and mammals but also that X and Z chromosomes share many convergent molecular features." https://lnkd.in/gT_EcE7 View in LinkedIn

YOUNG CHROMOSOMES. "We review some recently published results on sex chromosomes in a diversity of species. We focus on several fish and some plants whose sex chromosomes appear to be 'young', as only parts of the chromosome are nonrecombining, while the rest is pseudoautosomal." http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v95/n2/full/6800697a.html View in LinkedIn