dartR.sexlinked is on CRAN

[nanisrobledo]

Hello everyone,

Happy to announce that the package dartR.sexlinked is now available on CRAN. As mentioned before, dartRverse is a suite of smaller packages, including dartR.sexlinked. The package dartR.sexlinked was designed to identify, remove and use sex-linked SNPs present in organisms with sex chromosomes. In a nutshell, removing sex-linked loci at the beginning of filtering a SNP dataset is important because most popgen analyses assume autosomal loci. Sex-linked loci can also be used to identify the sex of individuals.

For instructions on how to install dartRverse, dartR.sexlinked and other packages see: https://github.com/green-striped-gecko/dartRverse.

Some resources:

- 10 min video explaining why removing sex-linked loci is important: https://vimeo.com/840300860

- Tutorial on how to use dartR.sexlinked: https://green-striped-gecko.github.io/kioloa/session10.html.

- Video of the the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5KYE1-3Ow

If you use dartR.sexlinked please cite:

Robledo‐Ruiz, D. A., Austin, L., Amos, J. N., Castrejón‐Figueroa, J., Harley, D. K., Magrath, M. J., ... & Pavlova, A. (2023). Easy‐to‐use R functions to separate reduced‐representation genomic datasets into sex‐linked and autosomal loci, and conduct sex assignment. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13844

All the best,

Diana Robledo-Ruiz