… traits will contribute to understanding the evolution of sex … Populus and Salix, has a long
history of investigations into … of sexual dimorphisms will always map to the sex chromosome, …

… 43 Comparative genomics of these proto-sex chromosomes … and contributes to variation at
the SLR we describe here. 341 342 … , flowers, fruits, and 483 seeds ([68–71]), and in Populus, …

… issue ‘Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution in … unlikely, hampering turnover
events through this mechanism. … Y chromosome, often leading to a rapid loss of gene activity for …

… We focus on the contribution of duplication events, which are … Poplar (Populus species)
has multiple dioecious mechanisms, … still many mysteries in plant sex chromosome evolution. …

… for studying sexual chromosomes of recent evolutionary origin. … , would induce female
sterility, leading to a dioecious population … In Populus trichocarpa, the sex-determining region of …

… first finding of sex chromosome-encoded sex-determining … These results exemplify how
duplication events can provide good … the proto-sex determinants originally contributed to the traits …

… stages of evolution of sex chromosomes among plants. The … in the evolution of dioecy
which can potentially contribute to … that the evolution of dioecy is at an incipient stage and an …

… our knowledge on sex chromosome evolution in dioecious … to identify sex-determining
genes to decipher sex determination and … shape the sex chromosome evolution, leading to the …

… Three inversions in the W chromosome, followed by four potential translocation events, formed
a … and may have contributed to the development of its ZW sex chromosome system during …

… mechanism of sex determination is the sex chromosomes. … seedlings, but the development
of more reliable molecular … advantages in contributing to the development of complete …