Recurrent neo-sex chromosome evolution in kiwifruit

T Akagi, E Varkonyi-Gasic, K Shirasawa, A Catanach… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Sex chromosome evolution is thought to be tightly associated with the acquisition and
maintenance of sexual dimorphisms. Plant sex chromosomes have evolved independently …

Evolution of a ZW sex chromosome system in willows

N Hu, BJ Sanderson, M Guo, G Feng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Transitions in the heterogamety of sex chromosomes (eg, XY to ZW or vice versa)
fundamentally alter the genetic basis of sex determination, however the details of these …

Mapping the sex determination region in the Salix F1 hybrid common parent population confirms a ZW system in six diverse species

DG Wilkerson, B Taskiran, CH Carlson, LB Smart - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Within the genus Salix, there are approximately 350 species native primarily to the northern
hemisphere and adapted to a wide range of habitats. This diversity can be exploited to mine …

Dioecy in flowering plants: From the first observations of prospero alpini in the XVI century to the most recent advances in the genomics era

A Vannozzi, F Palumbo, M Lucchin, G Barcaccia - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prospero Alpini was an Italian physician, botanist and scientist. Born in Marostica, in the
Republic of Venice, in his youth he served in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he decided to …

De Novo Assembly and Annotation of 11 Diverse Shrub Willow (Salix) Genomes Reveals Novel Gene Organization in Sex-Linked Regions

B Hyden, K Feng, TB Yates, S Jawdy… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Poplar and willow species in the Salicaceae are dioecious, yet have been shown to use
different sex determination systems located on different chromosomes. Willows in the …

[PDF][PDF] An unusual origin of a ZW sex chromosome system

N Hu, B Sanderson, M Guo, G Feng, D Gambhir… - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
Transitions in the heterogamety of sex chromosomes (eg XY to ZW or vice versa) are rare
and fundamentally alter the genetic basis of sex determination. Although in an XY-> ZW …