Evolutionary stasis of the pseudoautosomal boundary in strepsirrhine primates
- Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS / Univ. Lyon 1, France
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
- Zoo de Lyon, France
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS / Univ. Toulouse, France
- LEAF-Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Dept, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Decision letter
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Virginie Courtier-OrgogozoReviewing Editor; Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS UMR7592 - Université Paris Diderot
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Patricia J WittkoppSenior Editor; University of Michigan, United States
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Acceptance summary:
The Y chromosome tends to diverge rapidly in regions that do not recombine with the X chromosome. Sexually antagonistic selection, when sexes exhibit conflicting reproductive optima, has been hypothesized to increase recombination suppression between sex chromosomes. The authors found that the size of the non-recombining region has remained stable in lemurs and lorises, which display low sexual dimorphism, while it has expanded in the ancestors of apes and monkeys, which exhibit high sexual dimorphism. This elegant work provides empirical support for sexual antagonism shaping sex chromosome evolution.
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Evolutionary stasis of the pseudoautosomal boundary in strepsirrhine primates
eLife 9:e63650.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63650
