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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2017

Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism

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Sex chromosomes can display successive steps of recombination suppression known as " evolutionary strata, " which are thought to result from the successive linkage of sexually antagonistic genes to sex-determining genes. However, there is little evidence to support this explanation. Here we investigate whether evolutionary strata can evolve without sexual antagonism using fungi that display suppressed recombination extending beyond loci determining mating compatibility despite lack of male/female roles associated with their mating types. By comparing full-length chromosome assemblies from five anther-smut fungi with or without recombi-nation suppression in their mating-type chromosomes, we inferred the ancestral gene order and derived chromosomal arrangements in this group. This approach shed light on the chromosomal fusion underlying the linkage of mating-type loci in fungi and provided evidence for multiple clearly resolved evolutionary strata over a range of ages (0.9–2.1 million years) in mating-type chromosomes. Several evolutionary strata did not include genes involved in mating-type determination. The existence of strata devoid of mating-type genes, despite the lack of sexual antagonism, calls for a unified theory of sex-related chromosome evolution, incorporating, for example, the influence of partially linked deleterious mutations and the maintenance of neutral rearrangement polymor-phism due to balancing selection on sexes and mating types. evolutionary strata | chromosomal rearrangements | fungi | genomic degeneration | mating-type chromosomes
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Sara E Branco, Hélène E Badouin, Ricardo E Rodríguez de La Vega, Jerome Gouzy, Fantin E Carpentier, et al.. Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017, 114 (27), pp.7067-7072. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1701658114⟩. ⟨hal-01547790⟩
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