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Hybrids provide an interesting model to study the evolution of sex-determining genes and sex chromosome systems as they offer the opportunity to see how independently evolving sex-determining pathways interact in vivo. In this context, the genus Xenopus represents a stimulating model, since species with non-homologous sex chromosomes and different sex-determining genes have been identified. In addition, the possibility of interspecies breeding is favoured in this group, which arose by alloploidization events, with species ploidy ranging from 2n = 2x = 20 in X. tropicalis (the only diploid representative of the genus) to 2n = 12x = 108 in X. ruwenzoriensis. To study how two sex-determining genes interact in vivo, X. laevis × X. tropicalis hybrids were produced. Gonadal differentiation in these hybrids revealed that the dm-w gene is dominant over X. tropicalis male-determining sex chromosomes (Y or Z), even though the Y chromosome is dominant in X. tropicalis (Y > W>Z). In the absence of the dm-w gene (the Z chromosome from X. laevis is present), the W chromosome from X. tropicalis is able to trigger ovarian development. Testicular differentiation will take place in the absence of W chromosomes from any of the parental species. The dominance/recessivity relationships between these sex-determining loci in the context of either parental genome remains unknown. This article is part of the theme issue 'Challenging the paradigm in sex chromosome evolution: empirical and theoretical insights with a focus on vertebrates (Part II)'.
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