Genomic analysis of many nonmodel species has uncovered an incredible diversity of sex
chromosome systems, making it possible to empirically test the rich body of evolutionary …

Understanding plant sex chromosomes involves studying interactions between
developmental and physiological genetics, genome evolution, and evolutionary ecology. We …

Recombination suppression around sex-determining gene (s) is a key step in evolution of
sex chromosomes, but it is not well understood how it evolves. Recently evolved sex-linked …

Evolution of a non‐recombining sex‐specific region on the Y (or W) chromosome (NRY) is a
key step in sex chromosome evolution, but how recombination suppression evolves is not …

Some plants have massive sex-linked regions. To test hypotheses about their evolution, we
sequenced the genome of Silene latifolia, in which giant heteromorphic sex chromosomes …

Sex chromosomes either carry a factor like the male-determining factors of mammals (Berta
et al., 1990) or the plant Silene latifolia (Westergaard, 1958), or function in balanced sex …

The loss of recombination triggers divergence between the sex chromosomes and promotes
degeneration of the sex-limited chromosome. Several livebearers within the genus Poecilia …

Schistosomes, the human parasites responsible for snail fever, are female-heterogametic.
Different parts of their ZW sex chromosomes have stopped recombining in distinct lineages …

It is well known that the Y chromosomes of Drosophila and mammals and the W
chromosomes of birds carry only small fractions of the genes carried by the homologous X or …

The genus Silene includes a plethora of dioecious and gynodioecious species. Two
species, Silene latifolia (white campion) and Silene dioica (red campion), are dioecious …