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Chromatin structure changes around satellite repeats on the Schistosoma mansoni female sex chromosome suggest a possible mechanism for sex chromosome emergence.

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BACKGROUND: In the leuphotrochozoan parasitic platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni, male individuals are homogametic (ZZ) whereas females are heterogametic (ZW). To elucidate the mechanisms that led to the emergence of sex chromosomes we compared the genomic sequence and the chromatin structure of male and female individuals. As for many eukaryotes, the lower estimate for the repeat content is 40%, with an unknown proportion of domesticated repeats. We used massive sequencing to de novo assemble all repeats, and identify unambiguously Z-specific, W-specific and pseudoautosomal regions of the S. mansoni sex chromosomes. RESULTS: We show that 70-90 % of S. mansoni W and Z are pseudoautosomal. No female specific gene could be identified. Instead, the W-specific region is composed almost entirely of 36 satellite repeat families, of which 33 were previously unknown. Transcription and chromatin status of female specific repeats are stage specific: for those repeats that are transcribed, transcription is restricted to the larval stages lacking sexual dimorphism. In contrast, in the sexually dimorphic adult stage of the life cycle, no transcription occurs. In addition, the euchromatic character of histone modifications around the W-specific repeats decreases during the life cycle. Recombination repression occurs in this region even if homologous sequences are present on both the Z and W chromosomes. CONCLUSION: Our study provides for the first time evidence for the hypothesis that, at least in organisms with a ZW type of sex chromosomes, repeat-induced chromatin structure changes could indeed be the initial event in sex chromosome emergence.

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Parasitologie
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halsde-00677346 , version 1 (07-08-2019)

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Julie Mj Lepesant, Celine Cosseau, Jerome Boissier, Michael Freitag, Julien Portela, et al.. Chromatin structure changes around satellite repeats on the Schistosoma mansoni female sex chromosome suggest a possible mechanism for sex chromosome emergence.. Genome Biology, 2012, 13 (2), pp.R14. ⟨10.1186/gb-2012-13-2-r14⟩. ⟨halsde-00677346⟩
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