Genomic Dark Matter Illuminated: Anopheles Y Chromosomes

Seth N Redmond; Daniel E Neafsey

doi:10.1016/j.pt.2016.05.008

Genomic Dark Matter Illuminated: Anopheles Y Chromosomes

Trends Parasitol. 2016 Aug;32(8):585-587. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.05.008. Epub 2016 Jun 2.

Authors

Seth N Redmond¹, Daniel E Neafsey²

Affiliations

¹ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

PMID: 27263828
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2016.05.008

Abstract

Hall et al. have strategically used long-read sequencing technology to characterize the structure and highly repetitive content of the Y chromosome in Anopheles malaria mosquitoes. Their work confirms that this important but elusive heterochromatic sex chromosome is evolving extremely rapidly and harbors a remarkably small number of genes.

Keywords: evolution.; genomes; malaria; mosquitoes; sex chromosomes.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Anopheles / genetics*
Female
Genome, Insect / genetics*
Male
Sex Determination Processes / genetics
Y Chromosome / genetics*