Review Article

Repetitive Sequence and Sex Chromosome Evolution in Vertebrates

Table 1

An overview of repeats on sex chromosomes among divergent taxa.

SatelliteTelomereMultigeneTEReferences
Micro/miniITSMegarDNA

FishY/WX/YY/WY/W[49]
FrogY/WWWW[62]
SnakeW[38, 45]
LizardWW[52, 63]
TurtleW[64]
BirdWW[6568]
HumanY[69]
WallabyYY[70, 71]
PlatypusY2, Y3, Y5[72]

(ITS: interstitial telomere signal; TE: transposable elements).