PMID- 32403257
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210315
LR  - 20210315
IS  - 2073-4425 (Electronic)
IS  - 2073-4425 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 5
DP  - 2020 May 11
TI  - Evolutionary Variability of W-Linked Repetitive Content in Lacertid Lizards.
LID - 10.3390/genes11050531 [doi]
LID - 531
AB  - Lacertid lizards are a widely radiated group of squamate reptiles with long-term 
      stable ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes. Despite their family-wide homology of Z-specific 
      gene content, previous cytogenetic studies revealed significant variability in 
      the size, morphology, and heterochromatin distribution of their W chromosome. 
      However, there is little evidence about the accumulation and distribution of 
      repetitive content on lacertid chromosomes, especially on their W chromosome. In 
      order to expand our knowledge of the evolution of sex chromosome repetitive 
      content, we examined the topology of telomeric and microsatellite motifs that 
      tend to often accumulate on the sex chromosomes of reptiles in the karyotypes of 
      15 species of lacertids by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). The 
      topology of the above-mentioned motifs was compared to the pattern of 
      heterochromatin distribution, as revealed by C-banding. Our results show that the 
      topologies of the examined motifs on the W chromosome do not seem to follow a 
      strong phylogenetic signal, indicating independent and species-specific 
      accumulations. In addition, the degeneration of the W chromosome can also affect 
      the Z chromosome and potentially also other parts of the genome. Our study 
      provides solid evidence that the repetitive content of the degenerated sex 
      chromosomes is one of the most evolutionary dynamic parts of the genome.
FAU - Suwala, Grzegorz
AU  - Suwala G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2748-6229
AD  - Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 12844 Prague, 
      Czech Republic.
FAU - Altmanova, Marie
AU  - Altmanova M
AD  - Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 12844 Prague, 
      Czech Republic.
AD  - Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 27721 
      Libechov, Czech Republic.
FAU - Mazzoleni, Sofia
AU  - Mazzoleni S
AD  - Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 12844 Prague, 
      Czech Republic.
FAU - Karameta, Emmanouela
AU  - Karameta E
AD  - Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of 
      Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece.
FAU - Pafilis, Panayiotis
AU  - Pafilis P
AD  - Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of 
      Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece.
FAU - Kratochvil, Lukas
AU  - Kratochvil L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3515-729X
AD  - Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 12844 Prague, 
      Czech Republic.
FAU - Rovatsos, Michail
AU  - Rovatsos M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8429-5680
AD  - Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, 12844 Prague, 
      Czech Republic.
AD  - Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 27721 
      Libechov, Czech Republic.
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200511
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Genes (Basel)
JT  - Genes
JID - 101551097
RN  - 0 (Heterochromatin)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Chromosome Banding
MH  - Chromosomes/genetics
MH  - *Evolution, Molecular
MH  - Female
MH  - Heterochromatin/genetics/ultrastructure
MH  - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
MH  - Karyotype
MH  - Lizards/*genetics
MH  - Male
MH  - Microsatellite Repeats/genetics
MH  - Nucleotide Motifs
MH  - Phylogeny
MH  - Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
MH  - Sex Chromosomes/genetics
MH  - Species Specificity
MH  - Telomere/genetics
PMC - PMC7290949
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - C-banding
OT  - FISH
OT  - GATA
OT  - evolution
OT  - heterochromatin
OT  - karyotype
OT  - microsatellites
OT  - sex chromosomes
OT  - telomeres
COIS- We declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/05/15 06:00
MHDA- 2021/03/16 06:00
PMCR- 2020/05/01
CRDT- 2020/05/15 06:00
PHST- 2020/04/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/05/04 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/05/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/05/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/05/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/03/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - genes11050531 [pii]
AID - genes-11-00531 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/genes11050531 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Genes (Basel). 2020 May 11;11(5):531. doi: 10.3390/genes11050531.