Recombination is advantageous for populations because it enables more efficient selection, and therefore faster adaptation and purging of deleterious mutations. Yet genomic regions without recombination have repeatedly evolved in many organisms, forming sex chromosomes and other supergenes. The formation and evolution of these non-recombining regions raises many exciting evolutionary questions with important fundamental implications. This symposium brings together the best researchers in the field to highlight the similarities between sex chromosomes and other supergenes.
Scientific Committee: Tatiana Giraud, Ricardo Rodriguez de la Vega, Paul Jay.