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The probability of fusions joining sex chromosomes and autosomes

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By Nathan Anderson, Carl E. Hjelmen, Heath Blackmon, Anderson Nathan W
| royalsocietypublishing.org
1. Introduction The fusion and fission of chromosomes are two of the primary mechanisms that restructure the genome into discrete chromosomes [1]. Fusions and fissions can be selectively favoured in genome restructuring because they modify linkage among loci [2,3]. In particular, the fusion of a sex chromosome and an autosome (SA-fusion) has been proposed to resolve sexual antagonism (when an allele is beneficial for one sex and deleterious for the other) [4].
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