"Sex Chromosomes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The homologous chromosomes that are dissimilar in the heterogametic sex. There are the X CHROMOSOME, the Y CHROMOSOME, and the W, Z chromosomes (in animals in which the female is the heterogametic sex (the silkworm moth Bombyx mori, for example)). In such cases the W chromosome is the female-determining and the male is ZZ. (From King & Stansfield, A Dictionary of Genetics, 4th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D012730
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.187.865 G05.360.162.865
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| Concept/Terms |
Sex Chromosomes- Sex Chromosomes
- Chromosome, Sex
- Chromosomes, Sex
- Sex Chromosome
- Gonosomes
- Gonosome
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| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sex Chromosomes" by people in Profiles.
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Yes, polygenic sex determination is a thing! Trends Genet. 2024 Dec; 40(12):1001-1017.
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De novo assembly and characterization of a highly degenerated ZW sex chromosome in the fish Megaleporinus macrocephalus. Gigascience. 2024 Jan 02; 13.
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Induction and inhibition of Drosophila X chromosome gene expression are both impeded by the dosage compensation complex. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 08 25; 12(9).
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Ecology and the evolution of sex chromosomes. J Evol Biol. 2022 12; 35(12):1601-1618.
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Temperature-dependent effects of house fly proto-Y chromosomes on gene expression could be responsible for fitness differences that maintain polygenic sex determination. Mol Ecol. 2021 11; 30(22):5704-5720.
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The maintenance of polygenic sex determination depends on the dominance of fitness effects which are predictive of the role of sexual antagonism. G3 (Bethesda). 2021 07 14; 11(7).
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Gene-Level, but Not Chromosome-Wide, Divergence between a Very Young House Fly Proto-Y Chromosome and Its Homologous Proto-X Chromosome. Mol Biol Evol. 2021 01 23; 38(2):606-618.
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Evolution of Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes: A Novel Alternative Paradigm. Bioessays. 2020 09; 42(9):e1900212.
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Sex Chromosome Evolution in Muscid Flies. G3 (Bethesda). 2020 04 09; 10(4):1341-1352.