Disruptive natural selection by male reproductive potential prevents underexpression of protein-coding genes on the human Y chromosome as a self-domestication syndrome.
Mikhail P PonomarenkoMaxim KleshchevPetr PonomarenkoIrina ChadaevaEkaterina SharypovaDmitry RasskazovSemyon KolmykovIrina DrachkovaGennady VasilievNatalia GutorovaElena IgnatievaLudmila SavinkovaAnton BogomolovLudmila OsadchukAlexandr OsadchukDmitry OshchepkovPublished in: BMC genetics (2020)
Overall, our findings seem to support a self-domestication syndrome with disruptive natural selection by male reproductive potential preventing Y-linked underexpression of a protein.