Check out our paper on the neo-sex chromosomes in mountain pine beetle! We assembled THREE neo-Ys that are quite distinct and their corresponding neo-Xs .
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps šš, despite virtually no sequence conservation š® doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Hamaguchi, Kinomura and colleagues describe an ant species that lacks workers and
males and consists exclusively of queens.
The tortured past of young polymorphic sex chromosomes revealed through multiple de novo genome assemblies of the mountain pine beetle https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.702068v1
