The recent advances of new genomic technologies has enabled to identify and characterize sex chromosomes in an increasing number of non-model species, revealing that many plants and animals undergo fr
This R script was used to identify loci with SNPs that are differently fixed between males and females (ie all males are heterozygous, all females are homozygous). The loci identified are on the sex c
Due to its hemizygous mode of inheritance and role in sex determination, the X chromosome is expected to play an important role in the evolution of sexual dimorphism, and to be enriched for sexually a
Large portions of eukaryotic genomes consist of transposable elements (TEs), and the establishment of transcription-repressing heterochromatin during early development safeguards genome integrity. Rep
