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The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome

Carol Moraga, Catarina Branco, Quentin Rougemont, Paris Veltsos, Pavel Jedlicka, Aline Muyle, Melissa Hanique, Eric Tannier, Xiaodong Liu, Eddy Mendoza-Galindo, Claire Lemaitre, Peter D. Fields, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie, Caroline Belser, Jerome Briolay, Sylvain Santoni, Radim Cegan, Raquel Linheiro, Ricardo C. Rodriguez de la Vega, Gabriele Adam, Adil El Filali, Vinciane Mossion, Adnane Boualem, Raquel Tavares, Amine Chebbi, Richard Cordaux, Cecile Fruchard, Djivan Prentout, Amandine Velt, Bruno Spataro, Stephane Delmotte, Laura Weingartner, Helena Toegelova, Zuzana Tulpova, Petr Capal, Hana Simkova, Helena Storchova, Manuela Kruger, Oushadee A. J. Abeyawardana, Douglas R. Taylor, Matthew S. Olson, Daniel B. Sloan, Sophie Karrenberg, Lynda F. Delph, Deborah Charlesworth, Tatiana Giraud, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Alex Di Genova, Mohammed-Amin Madoui, Roman Hobza, Gabriel A. B. Marais

January 2025 Science
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Abstract

Study summary

This study reports a high-quality assembly of the male Silene latifolia genome and resolves one of the largest known plant Y chromosomes. The work links repeat accumulation, recombination suppression, and chromosome restructuring to the origin of giant sex chromosomes and identifies candidate sex-determining loci on the Y.