Genetics Ecology and EvolutionFinal paper from Marine Duhamel's PhD and second installment of our project on the causes and consequences of #recombination suppression in #sex determining #Chromosomes
The dynamics of #transposable #elements accumulation in non-recombining regions
Fully formatted, #peer reviewed and #openaccess at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41413-4
#seXYevol #EvolutionaryBiology #bioinformatics #FungiFriday #Genomics
Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in the non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in anther-smut fungi - Nature Communications
In the absence of recombination, the number of transposable elements (TEs) increases, but their accumulation dynamics are not well characterized. This study shows that TEs rapidly accumulated in non-recombining fungal mating-type chromosomes before reaching a plateau, possibly forming a TE reservoir.