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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 1826-1832Publisher
SOC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EVOLUTION
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026283
Keywords
gametolog; homology; phylogeny rooting; avian phylogeny; sex chromosome evolution; Chromo-helicase-DNA binding gene
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We describe a previously unrecognized form of gene homology using the term gametology, which we define as homology arising through lack of recombination and subsequent differentiation of sex chromosomes. We demonstrate use of gametologous genes to root each other in phylogenetic analyses of sex-specific avian Chromo-helicase-DNA binding gene (CHD) sequences. Phylogenetic analyses of a set of neognath bird sequences yield monophyletic groups for CHD-W and CHD-Z gametologs, as well as congruent relationships between these two clades and between them and current views of avian taxonomy. Phylogenetic analyses including paleognath bird CI-ID sequences and rooting with crocodilian CHD sequences, suggest an early divergence for paleognath CHD within the avian CHD clade. Based on our CHD analyses calibrated with avian fossil dates, we estimate the divergence between CHD-W and CHD-Z at 123 MYA, suggesting an early differentiation of sex chromosomes that predates most extant avian orders. In agreement with the notion of male-driven evolution, we find a faster rate of change in male-linked CHD-Z sequences.
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