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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology
Autosomal location of genes from the conserved mammalian X in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus): Implications for mammalian sex chromosome evolution
Chromosome Research, Volume 13, No. 4, Year 2005
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Mammalian sex chromosomes evolved from an ancient autosomal pair. Mapping of human X- and Y-borne genes in distantly related mammals and non-mammalian vertebrates has proved valuable to help deduce the evolution of this unique part of the genome. The platypus, a monotreme mammal distantly related to eutherians and marsupials, has an extraordinary sex chromosome system comprising five X and five Y chromosomes that form a translocation chain at male meiosis. The largest X chromosome (X1), which lies at one end of the chain, has considerable homology to the human X. Using comparative mapping and the emerging chicken database, we demonstrate that part of the therian X chromosome, previously thought to be conserved across all mammals, was lost from the platypus X1 to an autosome. This region included genes flanking the XIST locus, and also genes with Y-linked homologues that are important to male reproduction in therians. Since these genes lie on the X in marsupials and eutherians, and also on the homologous region of chicken chromosome 4, this represents a loss from the monotreme X rather than an additional evolutionary stratum of the human X. © 2005 Springer.
Authors & Co-Authors
Waters, Paul D.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Delbridge, Margaret L.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
Deakin, Janine E.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
El-Mogharbel, Nisrine
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
Kirby, Patrick J.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
United States, Research Triangle Park
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Niehs
Carvalho-Silva, Denise R.
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
United Kingdom, Hinxton
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Graves, Jennifer A.Marshall
Australia, Canberra
The Australian National University
Statistics
Citations: 53
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s10577-005-0978-5
ISSN:
09673849
Participants Gender
Male