David M Irwin

Oct 28, 2024 | nature.com | Lulu Xu |Jiahong Wu |Jiaqing Yuan |Wu Chen |David M Irwin |Luohao Xu | +1 more

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46052-x, published online 23 February 2024 The original version of this Article contained an error in the third sentence of the third paragraph of the Results, which incorrectly read “We annotated 414 protein-coding genes on the sexually differentiated region (SDR) of chromosome W, making it the most gene-rich SDR of bird W chromosomes, suggesting that only 54.6% of the original gene content was lost from the W...

Feb 22, 2024 | nature.com | Lulu Xu |Jiahong Wu |Jiaqing Yuan |Wu Chen |David M Irwin |Luohao Xu | +1 more

AbstractBird sex chromosomes play a unique role in sex-determination, and affect the sexual morphology and behavior of bird species. Core waterbirds, a major clade of birds, share the common characteristics of being sexually monomorphic and having lower levels of inter-sexual conflict, yet their sex chromosome evolution remains poorly understood. Here, by we analyse of a chromosome-level assembly of a female crested ibis (Nipponia nippon), a typical core waterbird.