Recent Advances in Genetic Mechanism and Evolution of Sex Determination and Chromosomes
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 182
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sex determination is essential for sexual reproduction and it has evolved differently depending on the organism. Genetic and evolutionary mechanisms, such as the evolution and origin of sex chromosomes that genetically determine sex, turnover of sex chromosomes and mechanisms of environment-dependent sex determination, have recently been studied through the fusion of genomics, molecular biology and evolutionary genetics. Through this Special Issue, we would like to report recent progress on the genetic mechanisms of diverse sex determination factors and sex chromosomes, and their evolutionary mechanisms.
The issue focuses on recent advances in genetic mechanisms, and the evolutionary processes of sex chromosomes and sex determination in animals. The scope of the issue is broad, and topics on various animals, vertebrate and invertebrate will be accepted. This issue aims to help a diverse readership gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest knowledge on the evolution of sex determination, complementing integrated knowledge on the genetic mechanism of sex determination and its evolutionary mechanisms.
Dr. Yukako Katsura
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sex chromosome
- sex determination
- molecular evolution
- genetics
