SMBE2026 Symposium 9 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations

SMBE2026 Symposium 9 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations

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Have you done any Kmer spectra analyses on the short read data Dan? That might give some clues as to what’s going on.

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Re-upping this thread on PGE in mealybugs because the results are finally published in Molecular Ecology:
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Yes, polygenic sex determination is a thing! The process of sexual development in animals is modulated by a variety of mechanisms. Some species respond to environmental cues, while, in others, sex determination is thought to be controlled by a s...

If you're interested in the evolution of sex determination, check out this opinion piece from Tom Kocher, @tonygamble.bsky.social , @behrenskristen.bsky.social , Will Gammerdinger, and me. We argue that genetic variation in sex determination is probably more prevalent that most people think.

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Yeh good point. TEs not slowing on Ys might be due to the lower gene density. Most will probably insert into other repeats. So reduced selection against new TEs in degenerated Ys could explain why there’s no slow down(?). No idea why they don’t colonise mt though, maybe mechanistic explanation?

+1 for this answer! Y’s lose dosage insensitive genes rapidly after recomb loss. Degeneration slows a lot as the gene content reduces to those genes which can’t be lost. So all about strength of purifying selection for me

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