Satellite DNA represents one of the most fascinating parts of the repetitive fraction of the
eukaryotic genome. Since the discovery of highly repetitive tandem DNA in the 1960s, a lot …

Hundreds of land plant lineages have independently evolved separate sexes in either
gametophytes (dioicy) or sporophytes (dioecy), but 43% of all dioecious angiosperms are …

Although hundreds of plant lineages have independently evolved dioecy (that is, separation
of the sexes), the underlying genetic basis remains largely elusive. Here we show that …

It remains a major challenge to identify the genes and mutations that lead to plant sexual
differentiation. Here, we study the structure and evolution of the sex-determining region …

Supergenes are genomic regions containing sets of tightly linked loci that control multi-trait
phenotypic polymorphisms under balancing selection. Recent advances in genomics have …

Methods of transcriptional profiling have made it possible to compare gene expression
between females and males on a genome-wide scale. Such studies have revealed that sex …

Angiosperms, the flowering plants, provide the essential resources for human life, such as
food, energy, oxygen, and materials. They also promoted the evolution of human, animals …

Male and female unisexual flowers evolved from hermaphroditic ancestors, and control of
flower sex is useful for plant breeding. We isolated a female-to-male sex transition mutant in …

Background Sex chromosomes have arisen independently in a wide variety of species, yet
they share common characteristics, including the presence of suppressed recombination …

How do separate sexes originate and evolve? Plants provide many opportunities to address
this question as they have diverse mating systems and separate sexes (dioecy) that evolved …