TY - JOUR
T1 - Allopolyploidization from two dioecious ancestors leads to recurrent evolution of sex chromosomes
AU - He, Li
AU - Wang, Yuàn
AU - Wang, Yi
AU - Zhang, Ren Gang
AU - Wang, Yuán
AU - Hörandl, Elvira
AU - Ma, Tao
AU - Mao, Yan Fei
AU - Mank, Judith E.
AU - Ming, Ray
N1 - This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 32171813 to L.H.) and the Special Fund for Scientific Research of Shanghai Landscaping & City Appearance Administrative Bureau (grant nos. G232403 and G242417 to L.H.). We are grateful to Si-Wen Zeng for sampling. We are indebted to James H. Leebens-Mack, Suhua Yang, Zhenyang Liao, Zhiqing Xue, Guangnan Gong, and Zhiying Zhu for their kind help during the preparation of our paper. We are grateful to the staff at Urban Horticulture Research and Extension Center of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden for providing their facilities and help.
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Polyploidization presents an unusual challenge for species with sex chromosomes, as it can lead to complex combinations of sex chromosomes that disrupt reproductive development. This is particularly true for allopolyploidization between species with different sex chromosome systems. Here, we assemble haplotype-resolved chromosome-level genomes of a female allotetraploid weeping willow (Salix babylonica) and a male diploid S. dunnii. We show that weeping willow arose from crosses between a female ancestor from the Salix-clade, which has XY sex chromosomes on chromosome 7, and a male ancestor from the Vetrix-clade, which has ancestral XY sex chromosomes on chromosome 15. We find that weeping willow has one pair of sex chromosomes, ZW on chromosome 15, that derived from the ancestral XY sex chromosomes in the male ancestor of the Vetrix-clade. Moreover, the ancestral 7X chromosomes from the female ancestor of the Salix-clade have reverted to autosomal inheritance. Duplicated intact ARR17-like genes on the four homologous chromosomes 19 likely have contributed to the maintenance of dioecy during polyploidization and sex chromosome turnover. Taken together, our results suggest the rapid evolution and reversion of sex chromosomes following allopolyploidization in weeping willow.
AB - Polyploidization presents an unusual challenge for species with sex chromosomes, as it can lead to complex combinations of sex chromosomes that disrupt reproductive development. This is particularly true for allopolyploidization between species with different sex chromosome systems. Here, we assemble haplotype-resolved chromosome-level genomes of a female allotetraploid weeping willow (Salix babylonica) and a male diploid S. dunnii. We show that weeping willow arose from crosses between a female ancestor from the Salix-clade, which has XY sex chromosomes on chromosome 7, and a male ancestor from the Vetrix-clade, which has ancestral XY sex chromosomes on chromosome 15. We find that weeping willow has one pair of sex chromosomes, ZW on chromosome 15, that derived from the ancestral XY sex chromosomes in the male ancestor of the Vetrix-clade. Moreover, the ancestral 7X chromosomes from the female ancestor of the Salix-clade have reverted to autosomal inheritance. Duplicated intact ARR17-like genes on the four homologous chromosomes 19 likely have contributed to the maintenance of dioecy during polyploidization and sex chromosome turnover. Taken together, our results suggest the rapid evolution and reversion of sex chromosomes following allopolyploidization in weeping willow.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-024-51158-3
DO - 10.1038/s41467-024-51158-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 39134553
AN - SCOPUS:85201247478
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 15
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
IS - 1
M1 - 6893
ER -