Journal
GENOME
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 286-290Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/g04-117
Keywords
recombination; ZW pair; avian sex chromosomes; sex chromosome heteromorphism
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The tinamid bird Nothura maculosa, along with other species of the order Tinamiformes and all of the existent ratites, form the infraclass Paleognathae, the most primitive living birds. Previous work has shown that in all studied Neognathae, the ZW pair shows strictly localized recombination in a very short pseudoautosomal region, while in paleognath birds, the ZW pairs have mostly free recombination. The present observations show that the ZW pair of N. maculosa has a recombination pattern departing from both neognaths and other Paleognath birds, as there is a single crossover but occurring at random points along a significant part of the long arm of the W chromosome. This recombination pattern agrees with the presence of intercalary and terminal heterochromatin in the W chromosome, suggesting an exceptional, additional step of recombination suppression.
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