Pathways to sex determination in plants: how many roads lead to Rome?

G Feng, BJ Sanderson, K Keefover-Ring, J Liu… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of thousands of independent origins of dioecy in angiosperms provides a
unique opportunity to address the parallel evolution of the molecular pathways underlying …

An efficient RNA-seq-based segregation analysis identifies the sex chromosomes of Cannabis sativa

D Prentout, O Razumova, B Rhoné, H Badouin… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Cannabis sativa–derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) production is increasing very fast
worldwide. C. sativa is a dioecious plant with XY Chromosomes, and only females (XX) are …

Exaggerated heterochiasmy in a fish with sex-linked male coloration polymorphisms

R Bergero, J Gardner, B Bader… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
It is often stated that polymorphisms for mutations affecting fitness of males and females in
opposite directions [sexually antagonistic (SA) polymorphisms] are the main selective force …

Sex and the flower–developmental aspects of sex chromosome evolution

R Hobza, V Hudzieczek, Z Kubat, R Cegan… - Annals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The evolution of dioecious plants is occasionally accompanied by the
establishment of sex chromosomes: both XY and ZW systems have been found in plants …

Genome assembly of the basket willow, Salix viminalis, reveals earliest stages of sex chromosome expansion

P Almeida, E Proux-Wera, A Churcher, L Soler… - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Sex chromosomes have evolved independently multiple times in eukaryotes
and are therefore considered a prime example of convergent genome evolution. Sex …

Distinct responses to rare codons in select Drosophila tissues

SR Allen, RK Stewart, M Rogers, IJ Ruiz, E Cohen… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Codon usage bias has long been appreciated to influence protein production. Yet, relatively
few studies have analyzed the impacts of codon usage on tissue-specific mRNA and protein …

Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism

I Darolti, JE Mank - Evolution Letters, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression differences between males and females are thought to be key for the
evolution of sexual dimorphism, and sex-biased genes are often used to study the molecular …

Sex‐biased gene expression in flowers, but not leaves, reveals secondary sexual dimorphism in Populus balsamifera

BJ Sanderson, L Wang, P Tiffin, Z Wu… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Because sexual dimorphism in plants is often less morphologically conspicuous than in
animals, studies of sex‐biased gene expression may provide a quantitative metric to better …

High rates of evolution preceded shifts to sex-biased gene expression in Leucadendron, the most sexually dimorphic angiosperms

M Scharmann, AG Rebelo, JR Pannell - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Differences between males and females are usually more subtle in dioecious plants than
animals, but strong sexual dimorphism has evolved convergently in the South African Cape …

Tissue specificity and dynamics of sex-biased gene expression in a common frog population with differentiated, yet homomorphic, sex chromosomes

WJ Ma, P Veltsos, MA Toups, N Rodrigues, R Sermier… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Sex-biased genes are central to the study of sexual selection, sexual antagonism, and sex
chromosome evolution. We describe a comprehensive de novo assembled transcriptome in …