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- Title
Ongoing Rapid Evolution of a Post-Y Region Revealed by Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly of a Hexaploid Monoecious Persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
- Authors
Horiuchi, Ayano; Masuda, Kanae; Shirasawa, Kenta; Onoue, Noriyuki; Fujita, Naoko; Ushijima, Koichiro; Akagi, Takashi
- Abstract
Plants have evolved sex chromosomes independently in many lineages, and loss of separate sexes can also occur. In this study, we assembled a monoecious recently hexaploidized persimmon (Diospyros kaki), in which the Y chromosome has lost the maleness-determining function. Comparative genomic analysis of D. kaki and its dioecious relatives uncovered the evolutionary process by which the nonfunctional Y chromosome (or Y monoecy) was derived, which involved silencing of the sex-determining gene, OGI , approximately 2 million years ago. Analyses of the entire X and Y monoecy chromosomes suggested that D. kaki 's nonfunctional male-specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY), which we call a post-MSY, has conserved some characteristics of the original functional MSY. Specifically, comparing the functional MSY in Diospyros lotus and the nonfunctional "post-MSY" in D. kaki indicated that both have been rapidly rearranged, mainly via ongoing transposable element bursts, resembling structural changes often detected in Y-linked regions, some of which can enlarge the nonrecombining regions. The recent evolution of the post-MSY (and possibly also MSYs in dioecious Diospyros species) therefore probably reflects these regions' ancestral location in a pericentromeric region, rather than the presence of male-determining genes and/or genes controlling sexually dimorphic traits.
- Subjects
Y chromosome; DIOSPYROS; SEX chromosomes; PERSIMMON; GENOMICS; GENOMES; GENETIC sex determination
- Publication
Molecular Biology & Evolution, 2023, Vol 40, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
0737-4038
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/molbev/msad151