Triggers and biological processes controlling male or female gonadal differentiation vary in
vertebrates, with sex determination (SD) governed by environmental factors or simple to …

Laboratory experiments and fieldwork with asexually reproducing invertebrates and
vertebrates clearly revealed that animal populations can produce substantial phenotypic …

Reptiles are critically affected by temperature throughout their lifespan, but especially so
during early development. Temperature-induced changes in phenotype are a specific …

Sex chromosome evolution remains an evolutionary puzzle despite its importance in
understanding sexual development and genome evolution. The seemingly random …

The knowledge about the effects of environmental temperature on human epigenome is a
potential key to understand the health impacts of temperature and to guide acclimation …

Environmental factors influencing parents or offspring during embryogenesis can have
knock-on effects at later life stages of the offspring. These effects may prepare the progeny …

The X and Y chromosomes of channel catfish have the same gene contents. Here, we report
allelic hypermethylation of the X chromosome within the sex determination region (SDR) …

Sex chromosome dosage compensation (SCDC) overcomes gene-dose imbalances that
disturb transcriptional networks, as when ZW females or XY males are hemizygous for Z/X …

In recent years, observations of distinct organisms have linked the quality of the environment
experienced by a given individual and the sex it will develop. In most described cases …

Parker, Baker, and Smith provided the first robust theory explaining why anisogamy evolves
in parallel in multicellular organisms. Anisogamy sets the stage for the emergence of …