Viability of X-autosome translocations in mammals: an epigenomic hypothesis from a rodent case-study

Chromosoma
G DobignyV Volobouev

Abstract

X-autosome translocations are highly deleterious chromosomal rearrangements due to meiotic disruption, the effects of X-inactivation on the autosome, and the necessity of maintaining different replication timing patterns between the two segments. In spite of this, X-autosome translocations are not uncommon. We here focus on the genus Taterillus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae) which provides two sister lineages differing by two autosome-gonosome translocations. Despite the recent and dramatic chromosomal repatterning characterising these lineages, the X-autosome translocated species all display intercalary heterochromatic blocks (IHBs) between the autosomal and the ancestral sexual segments. These blocks, composed of highly amplified telomeric repeats and rDNA clusters, are not observed on the chromosomes of the non-translocated species, nor the Y1 and Y2 of the translocated species. Such IHBs are found in all mammals documented for X-autosome translocation. We propose an epigenomic hypothesis which explains the viability of X-autosome translocations in mammals. This posits that constitutive heterochromatin is probably selected for in X-autosome translocations since it may (1) prevent facultative heterochromatinization of the inactivate...Continue Reading

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