Nature Communications (Oct 2018)
A rapid rate of sex-chromosome turnover and non-random transitions in true frogs
- Daniel L. Jeffries,
- Guillaume Lavanchy,
- Roberto Sermier,
- Michael J. Sredl,
- Ikuo Miura,
- Amaël Borzée,
- Lisa N. Barrow,
- Daniele Canestrelli,
- Pierre-André Crochet,
- Christophe Dufresnes,
- Jinzhong Fu,
- Wen-Juan Ma,
- Constantino Macías Garcia,
- Karim Ghali,
- Alfredo G. Nicieza,
- Ryan P. O’Donnell,
- Nicolas Rodrigues,
- Antonio Romano,
- Íñigo Martínez-Solano,
- Ilona Stepanyan,
- Silvia Zumbach,
- Alan Brelsford,
- Nicolas Perrin
Affiliations
- Daniel L. Jeffries
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Guillaume Lavanchy
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Roberto Sermier
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Michael J. Sredl
- Arizona Game and Fish Department, 5000 W. Carefree Highway
- Ikuo Miura
- Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University
- Amaël Borzée
- Division of EcoScience and Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University
- Lisa N. Barrow
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, MSC03 2020, 1 University of New Mexico
- Daniele Canestrelli
- Department of Ecological and Biological Science, University of Tuscia
- Pierre-André Crochet
- CEFE, CNRS, University Montpellier, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, EPHE, IRD
- Christophe Dufresnes
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Jinzhong Fu
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- Wen-Juan Ma
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Constantino Macías Garcia
- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City
- Karim Ghali
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Alfredo G. Nicieza
- Research Unit of Biodiversity, UO-CSIC-PA
- Ryan P. O’Donnell
- Arizona Game and Fish Department, 5000 W. Carefree Highway
- Nicolas Rodrigues
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- Antonio Romano
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per i sistemi agricoli e forestali del mediterraneo, Via Patacca 84
- Íñigo Martínez-Solano
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC
- Ilona Stepanyan
- Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Science, Republic of Armenia
- Silvia Zumbach
- Info Fauna - karch, UniMail, Bellevaux 51
- Alan Brelsford
- Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology Department, University of California Riverside
- Nicolas Perrin
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06517-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
The evolutionary forces that favour transitions in sex chromosomes are not well understood. Here, Jeffries and colleagues show a very high rate of sex chromosome turnover in true frogs, which may be driven by rapid mutation-load accumulation due to the low recombination rate in males.
