Nature Communications (Nov 2017)
The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome
- Alex Harkess,
- Jinsong Zhou,
- Chunyan Xu,
- John E. Bowers,
- Ron Van der Hulst,
- Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam,
- Francesco Mercati,
- Paolo Riccardi,
- Michael R. McKain,
- Atul Kakrana,
- Haibao Tang,
- Jeremy Ray,
- John Groenendijk,
- Siwaret Arikit,
- Sandra M. Mathioni,
- Mayumi Nakano,
- Hongyan Shan,
- Alexa Telgmann-Rauber,
- Akira Kanno,
- Zhen Yue,
- Haixin Chen,
- Wenqi Li,
- Yanling Chen,
- Xiangyang Xu,
- Yueping Zhang,
- Shaochun Luo,
- Helong Chen,
- Jianming Gao,
- Zichao Mao,
- J. Chris Pires,
- Meizhong Luo,
- Dave Kudrna,
- Rod A. Wing,
- Blake C. Meyers,
- Kexian Yi,
- Hongzhi Kong,
- Pierre Lavrijsen,
- Francesco Sunseri,
- Agostino Falavigna,
- Yin Ye,
- James H. Leebens-Mack,
- Guangyu Chen
Affiliations
- Alex Harkess
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Jinsong Zhou
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Chunyan Xu
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- John E. Bowers
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Ron Van der Hulst
- Limgroup B.V.
- Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Francesco Mercati
- Dipartimento AGRARIA, Università Mediterranea degli Studi di Reggio Calabria
- Paolo Riccardi
- Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Research Unit for Vegetable Crops
- Michael R. McKain
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Atul Kakrana
- Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware
- Haibao Tang
- Center for Genomics and Biotechnology, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Haixia Applied Plant Systems Biology, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology (HIST), Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
- Jeremy Ray
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- John Groenendijk
- Green Acres Life Science
- Siwaret Arikit
- Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Delaware
- Sandra M. Mathioni
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Mayumi Nakano
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Hongyan Shan
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Alexa Telgmann-Rauber
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Akira Kanno
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
- Zhen Yue
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Haixin Chen
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Wenqi Li
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Yanling Chen
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Xiangyang Xu
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- Yueping Zhang
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Shaochun Luo
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Helong Chen
- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Jianming Gao
- Environment and Plant Protection Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences
- Zichao Mao
- College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University
- J. Chris Pires
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
- Meizhong Luo
- College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University
- Dave Kudrna
- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Rod A. Wing
- Arizona Genomics Institute, School of Plant Sciences and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Blake C. Meyers
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
- Kexian Yi
- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences
- Hongzhi Kong
- State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Pierre Lavrijsen
- Limgroup B.V.
- Francesco Sunseri
- Dipartimento AGRARIA, Università Mediterranea degli Studi di Reggio Calabria
- Agostino Falavigna
- Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Research Unit for Vegetable Crops
- Yin Ye
- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen
- James H. Leebens-Mack
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia
- Guangyu Chen
- Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01064-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Several models have been proposed to explain the emergence of sex chromosomes. Here, through comparative genomics and mutant analysis, Harkess et al. show that linked but separate genes on the Y chromosome are responsible for sex determination in Asparagus, supporting a two-gene model for sex chromosome evolution.
