AMHY and sex determination in egg-laying mammals
Our results provide insight into the early steps of monotreme sex chromosome evolution and sex determination with developmental expression data strongly supporting AMHY as the primary male sex-determination gene of platypus and echidna.
Authors
- Yang Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1247-5049)
- David L. Adelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2404-5636)
- Hongshi Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6560-7522)
- Craig A. Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1670-5545)
- Stephen D. Johnston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0290-5458)
- Jane C. Fenelon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8771-5196)
- James D. Galbraith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1871-2108)
- Zhipeng Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-0773)
- Frank Grützner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3088-7314)
- Linda Shearwin‐Whyatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4504-6534)
- Guojie Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6860-1521)
- Marilyn B. Renfree (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4589-0436)
- Andrew Thomas Major (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9036-6652)
- Michael Pyne
- Keith E. Shearwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7736-2742)
- A. Stuart
Institutions
- BGI Group (China) (CN)
- Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AU)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- South Australian Museum (AU)
- Discovery Institute (US)
- BGI Research (CN)
- Monash University (AU)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- Zhejiang University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Genome biology
- Published
- 2025-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03546-1
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.82
Funders
- Australian Research Council