Katerina Tishakova1, Dmitry Prokopov2, Ilya Kichigin3, Anna Molodtseva4, LukГЎЕЎ Kratochvil5, Artem Lisachov6, Vladimir Trifonov7
1Novosibirs State University, Novosibirsk, Russia; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, k.tishakova@g.nsu.ru
2Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, dprokopov@mcb.nsc.ru
3Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, kig@mcb.nsc.ru
4Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, rada@mcb.nsc.ru
5Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, lukkrat@email.cz
6Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, lisachov@bionet.nsc.ru
7Novosibirs State University, Novosibirsk, Russia; Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, vlad@mcb.nsc.ru
Representatives of Infraorder Gekkota demonstrate relatively low chromosomal evolution and rapidly evolved sex chromosome systems. Using low-coverage chromosome sequencing, we sequenced chromosome-specific libraries of Gekko japonicus and putative sex chromosome of Hemidactylus platyurus to compare with annotated genomes of squamate reptiles. We found evolutionary long conservation of macro-chromosome and high dynamic of micro-chromosomes. Also, we discovered homologues synteny blocks between sex chromosomes of species from different infraorder.