TY - GEN AU - Vidal, Jhon Alex Dziechciarz AU - Charlesworth, Deborah AU - Utsunomia, Ricardo AU - Garrido Ramos, Manuel Angel AU - dos Santos, Rodrigo Zeni AU - Porto-Foresti, Fábio AU - Artoni, Roberto Ferreira AU - Liehr, Thomas AU - de Almeida, Mara Cristina AU - Cioffi, Marcelo de Bello PY - 2025 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/102964 AB - Background: The flea beetle Omophoita octoguttata (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) is a member of a group in which the males completely lack meiotic recombination (male-specific achiasmy) and that have extraordinarily large X and Y chromosomes. We combined... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central Ltd KW - Repetitive DNA KW - Satellitome KW - Transposable elements TI - Unraveling the role of satellite DNAs in the evolution of the giant XY sex chromosomes of the flea beetle Omophoita octoguttata (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02155-5 ER -