Testing new hypotheses on the evolution of sex-related chromosomes

Project Information

EvolSexChrom

Grant agreement ID: 832352

DOI

10.3030/832352

Project closed

EC signature date 4 June 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Why do sex chromosomes progressively lose recombination?

Author(s): Paul Jay Daniel Jeffries Fanny E. Hartmann Amandine Véber Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Trends in Genetics, 2024, ISSN 0168-9525
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2024.03.005

Onset and stepwise extensions of recombination suppression are common in mating-type chromosomes of Microbotryum anther-smut fungi

Author(s): Marine Duhamel, Fantin Carpentier, Dominik Begerow, Michael E. Hood, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022, ISSN 1420-9101
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13991

Sheltered load in fungal mating-type chromosomes revealed by fitness experiments

Author(s): Lou Guyot, Elizabeth Chahine, Elsa De Filippo, Christophe Lalanne, Sylvain Brun, Fanny Hartmann, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2025, ISSN 1420-9101
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voaf079

Size variation of the non-recombining region on the mating-type chromosomes in the fungal Podospora anserina species complex

Author(s): Fanny E Hartmann, S Lorena Ament-Velásquez, Aaron A Vogan, Valérie Gautier, Stephanie Le Prieur, Myriam Berramdane, Alodie Snirc, Hanna Johannesson, Pierre Grognet, Fabienne Malagnac, Philippe Silar, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2021, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab040

High-Quality Genome Assemblies of 4 Members of thePodospora anserina Species Complex

Author(s): S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez 1,*, Aaron A. Vogan 2, Ola Wallerman3, Fanny E. Hartmann 4, Valérie Gautier5, Philippe Silar 5, Tatiana Giraud4, and Hanna Johannesson
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evae034

Stepwise recombination suppression around the mating-type locus in an ascomycete fungus with self-fertile spores

Author(s): Nina Vittorelli; Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega; Alodie Snirc; Emilie Levert; Valérie Gautier; Christophe Lalanne; Elsa De Filippo; Pierre Gladieux; Sonia Guillou; Yu Zhang; Sravanthi Tejomurthula; Igor V. Grigoriev; Robert Debuchy; Philippe Silar; Tatiana Giraud; Fanny E. Hartmann
Published in: Plos Genetics, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) e1010347, ISSN 1553-7390
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010347

Identification of the First Oomycete Mating-type Locus Sequence in the Grapevine Downy Mildew Pathogen, Plasmopara viticola

Author(s): Yann Dussert, Ludovic Legrand, Isabelle D. Mazet, Carole Couture, Marie-Christine Piron, Rémy-Félix Serre, Olivier Bouchez, Pere Mestre, Silvia Laura Toffolatti, Tatiana Giraud, François Delmotte
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/20, 2020, Page(s) 3897-3907.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.057

Dynamics of transposable element accumulation in the non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in anther-smut fungi

Author(s): Duhamel Marine, Hood Michael E., Rodríguez de la Vega Ricardo C., Giraud Tatiana
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41413-4

Important role of melanin for fertility in the fungus Podospora anserina

Author(s): Valerie Gautier, Emilie Levert, Tatiana Giraud, Philippe Silar
Published in: G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2021, ISSN 2160-1836
Publisher: Genetics Society of America
DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab159

Repeated loss of function at HD mating-type genes and of recombination in anther-smut fungi

Author(s): Elise A. Lucotte, Paul Jay, Quentin Rougemont, Loreleï Boyer, Amandine Cornille, Alodie Snirc, Amandine Labat, Elizabeth Chahine, Marine Duhamel, Alice Namias, Jacob Gendelman, Wen-Juan Ma, Roxanne K. Hayes, Shikhi Baruri, Joseph P. Ham, Michael H. Perlin, Michael E. Hood, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60222-5

Higher gene flow in sex-related chromosomes than in autosomes during fungal divergence

Author(s): Fanny E Hartmann, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega, Pierre Gladieux, Wen-Juan Ma, Michael E Hood, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz252

An Inversion Polymorphism Under Balancing Selection, Involving Giant Mobile Elements, in an Invasive Fungal Pathogen

Author(s): Fanny E Hartmann, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega, Arthur Demené, Thomas Badet, Jean-Philippe Vernadet, Quentin Rougemont, Amandine Labat, Alodie Snirc, Lea Stauber, Daniel Croll, Simone Prospero, Cyril Dutech, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, Issue 42, 2025, ISSN 0737-4038
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf026

The <i>Silene latifolia</i> genome and its giant Y chromosome

Author(s): Carol Moraga, Catarina Branco, Quentin Rougemont, Pavel Jedlička, Eddy Mendoza-Galindo, Paris Veltsos, Melissa Hanique, Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega, Eric Tannier, Xiaodong Liu, Claire Lemaitre, Peter D. Fields, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie, Caroline Belser, Jerome Briolay, Sylvain Santoni, Radim Cegan, Raquel Linheiro, Gabriele Adam, Adil El Filali, Vinciane Mossion, Adnane Boualem, Raquel
Published in: Science, Issue 387, 2025, Page(s) 630-636, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adj7430

Mating-Type Locus Organization and Mating-Type Chromosome Differentiation in the Bipolar Edible Button Mushroom Agaricus bisporus

Author(s): Marie Foulongne-Oriol; Ozgur Taskent; Ursula Kües; Anton S.M. Sonnenberg; Arend F. van Peer; Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Genes, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2073-4425
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/genes12071079

Tempo of degeneration across independently evolved non-recombining regions

Author(s): Fantin Carpentier, Ricardo C. Rodriguez de la Vega, Paul Jay, Marine Duhamel, Jacqui A. Shykoff, Michael H. Perlin, R. Margaret Wallen, Michael E. Hood, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022, ISSN 1537-1719
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac060

Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating‐type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes

Author(s): Fanny E. Hartmann, Marine Duhamel, Fantin Carpentier, Michael E. Hood, Marie Foulongne‐Oriol, Philippe Silar, Fabienne Malagnac, Pierre Grognet, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 229/5, 2021, Page(s) 2470-2491, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17039

EASYstrata: an all-in-one workflow for genome annotation and genomic divergence analysis

Author(s): Quentin Rougemont, Elise Lucotte, Loreleï Boyer, Alexandra Jalaber de Dinechin, Alodie Snirc, Tatiana Giraud, Ricardo C Rodríguez de la Vega
Published in: NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2631-9268
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/nargab/lqaf110

The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing

Author(s): Tezenas, Emilie; Giraud, Tatiana; Véber, Amandine; Billiard, Sylvain
Published in: Peer Community Journal, 2023, ISSN 2804-3871
Publisher: Peer Community
DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.238

Differential Gene Expression between Fungal Mating Types Is Associated with Sequence Degeneration

Author(s): Wen-Juan Ma, Fantin Carpentier, Tatiana Giraud, Michael E Hood
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 12/4, 2020, Page(s) 243-258, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa028

Genetic differentiation in the <i>MAT</i>-proximal region is not sufficient for suppressing recombination in <i>Podospora anserina</i>

Author(s): Pierre Grognet, Robert Debuchy, Tatiana Giraud
Published in: G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2160-1836
Publisher: Genetics Society of America
DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf015