Evolution and Impact of Heterochromatin on a Young Drosophila Y chromosome

Project Information

UNICODE

Grant agreement ID: 677696

DOI

10.3030/677696

Project closed

EC signature date 30 May 2016

Start date 1 August 2016

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 971 846,00

EU contribution

€ 1 971 846,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Chromosome-level genome assembly defines female-biased genes associated with sex determination and differentiation in the human blood fluke Schistosoma japonicum

Author(s): Xindong Xu,Yifeng Wang,Changhong Wang,Gangqiang Guo,Xinyu Yu,Yang Dai,Yaobao Liu,Guiying Wei,Xiaohui He,Ge Jin,Ziqiu Zhang,Qingtian Guan,Arnab Pain,Shengyue Wang,Wenbao Zhang,Neil D. Young,Robin B. Gasser,Donald P. McManus,Jun Cao,Qi Zhou,Qingfeng Zhang
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2022, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13689

Sequence Transpositions Restore Genes on the Highly Degenerated W Chromosomes of Songbirds

Author(s): Luohao Xu, Martin Irestedt, Qi Zhou
Published in: Genes, Issue 11/11, 2020, Page(s) 1267, ISSN 2073-4425
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/genes11111267

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

Author(s): Shaohong Feng, Josefin Stiller, Yuan Deng, Joel Armstrong, Qi Fang, Andrew Hart Reeve, Duo Xie, Guangji Chen, Chunxue Guo, Brant C. Faircloth, Bent Petersen, Zongji Wang, Qi Zhou, Mark Diekhans, Wanjun Chen, Sergio Andreu-Sánchez, Ashot Margaryan, Jason Travis Howard, Carole Parent, George Pacheco, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Lara Puetz, Emily Cavill, Ângela M. Ribeiro, Leopold Eckhart, Jon Fjelds
Published in: Nature, 2020, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2873-9

A new duck genome reveals conserved and convergently evolved chromosome architectures of birds and mammals

Author(s): Jing Li, Jilin Zhang, Jing Liu, Yang Zhou, Cheng Cai, Luohao Xu, Xuelei Dai, Shaohong Feng, Chunxue Guo, Jinpeng Rao, Kai Wei, Erich D Jarvis, Yu Jiang, Zhengkui Zhou, Guojie Zhang, Qi Zhou
Published in: GigaScience, Issue 10/1, 2021, ISSN 2047-217X
Publisher: Oxford
DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giaa142

High-quality chromosome-level genomes of two tilapia species reveal their evolution of repeat sequences and sex chromosomes

Author(s): Wenjing Tao; Luohao Xu; Lin Zhao; Zexian Zhu; Xin Wu; Qianwen Min; Deshou Wang; Qi Zhou
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1755-0998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13273

Establishment and evolution of heterochromatin

Author(s): Jing Liu, Mujahid Ali, Qi Zhou
Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Issue 1476/1, 2020, Page(s) 59-77, ISSN 0077-8923
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14303

Genome and gene evolution of seahorse species revealed by the chromosome-level genome of Hippocampus abdominalis

Author(s): Libin He,Xin Long,Jianfei Qi,Zongji Wang,Zhen Huang,Shuiqing Wu,Xingtan Zhang,Huiyu Luo,Xinxin Chen,Jinbo Lin,Qiuhua Yang,Shiyu Huang,Qi Zhou,Leyun Zheng
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2021, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13541

Diversity of reptile sex chromosome evolution revealed by cytogenetic and linked-read sequencing

Author(s): Ze-Xian Zhu, Kazumi Matsubara, Foyez Shams, Jason Dobry, Erik Wapstra, Tony Gamble, Stephen D. Sarre, Arthur Georges, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Qi Zhou, Tariq Ezaz
Published in: Zoological Research, 2022, ISSN 2095-8137
Publisher: Kunming Institute of Zoology, China
DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.127

Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds

Author(s): Luohao Xu, Gabriel Auer, Valentina Peona, Alexander Suh, Yuan Deng, Shaohong Feng, Guojie Zhang, Mozes P. K. Blom, Les Christidis, Stefan Prost, Martin Irestedt & Qi Zhou
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution volume, 2021, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0850-1

On the Origin and Evolution of Drosophila New Genes during Spermatogenesis.

Author(s): Qianwei Su; Huangyi He; Qi Zhou
Published in: Genes, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 2073-4425
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/genes12111796

Molecular mechanisms and topological consequences of drastic chromosomal rearrangements of muntjac deer

Author(s): Yuan Yin, Huizhong Fan, Botong Zhou, Yibo Hu, Guangyi Fan, Jinhuan Wang, Fan Zhou, Wenhui Nie, Chenzhou Zhang, Lin Liu, Zhenyu Zhong, Wenbo Zhu, Guichun Liu, Zeshan Lin, Chang Liu, Jiong Zhou, Guangping Huang, Zihe Li, Jianping Yu, Yaolei Zhang, Yue Yang, Bingzhao Zhuo, Baowei Zhang, Jiang Chang, Haiyuan Qian, Yingmei Peng, Xianqing Chen, Lei Chen, Zhipeng Li, Qi Zhou, Wen Wang & Fuwen Wei
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27091-0

The Female-Specific W Chromosomes of Birds Have Conserved Gene Contents but Are Not Feminized

Author(s): Luohao Xu, Qi Zhou
Published in: Genes, Issue 11/10, 2020, Page(s) 1126, ISSN 2073-4425
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/genes11101126

On the regulatory evolution of new genes throughout their life history

Author(s): Zhang, Jia-Yu; Zhou, Qi
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/276667

Dynamic evolution of transposable elements, demographic history, and gene content of paleognathous birds

Author(s): ZongJi Wang, Guang-Ji Chen, Guo-Jie Zhang, Qi Zhou
Published in: Zoological Research, 2021, ISSN 2095-8137
Publisher: Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2020.175

Evolution of sexual systems, sex chromosomes and sex-linked gene transcription in flatworms and roundworms

Author(s): Yifeng Wang, Robin B. Gasser, Deborah Charlesworth & Qi Zhou
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30578-z

A new emu genome illuminates the evolution of genome configuration and nuclear architecture of avian chromosomes

Author(s): Jing Liu, Zongji Wang, Jing Li, Luohao Xu, Jiaqi Liu, Shaohong Feng, Chunxue Guo, Shengchan Chen, Zhanjun Ren, Jinpeng Rao, Kai Wei, Yuezhou Chen, Erich D. Jarvis, Guojie Zhang, Qi Zhou
Published in: Genome Research, Issue 31/3, 2021, Page(s) 497-511, ISSN 1088-9051
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/gr.271569.120

Phylogeny and Sex Chromosome Evolution of Palaeognathae

Author(s): Zongji Wang; Zongji Wang; Jilin Zhang; Xiaoman Xu; Christopher C. Witt; Yuan Deng; Guangji Chenc; Guanliang Meng; Shaohong Feng; Luohao Xu; Luohao Xu; Tamás Székely; Tamás Székely; Guojie Zhang; Qi Zhou; Qi Zhou; Qi Zhou
Published in: Journal of Genetics and Genomics, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1673-8527
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.06.013

A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘sexomics’

Author(s): Matthias Stöck, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Heiner Kuhl, Michail Rovatsos, Ben J. Evans, Alexander Suh, Nicole Valenzuela, Frédéric Veyrunes, Qi Zhou, Tony Gamble, Blanche Capel, Manfred Schartl and Yann Guiguen*
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0426

Platypus and echidna genomes reveal mammalian biology and evolution

Author(s): Yang Zhou, Linda Shearwin-Whyatt, Jing Li, Zhenzhen Song, Takashi Hayakawa, David Stevens, Jane C. Fenelon, Emma Peel, Yuanyuan Cheng, Filip Pajpach, Natasha Bradley, Hikoyu Suzuki, Masato Nikaido, Joana Damas, Tasman Daish, Tahlia Perry, Zexian Zhu, Yuncong Geng, Arang Rhie, Ying Sims, Jonathan Wood, Bettina Haase, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Olivier Fedrigo, Qiye Li, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Stephen
Published in: Nature, 2021, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03039-0

Identifying the causes and consequences of assembly gaps using a multiplatform genome assembly of a bird-of-paradise

Author(s): Valentina Peona,Mozes P. K. Blom,Luohao Xu,Reto Burri,Shawn Sullivan,Ignas Bunikis,Ivan Liachko,Tri Haryoko,Knud A. Jønsson,Qi Zhou, Martin Irestedt,Alexander Suh
Published in: Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020, ISSN 1755-098X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13252