Young sex chromosomes in plants and animals

D Charlesworth - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major reason for studying plant sex chromosomes is that they may often be
'young'systems. There is considerable evidence for the independent evolution of separate …

Pleiotropic effects of sex-determining genes in the evolution of dioecy in two plant species

T Akagi, D Charlesworth - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
One reason for studying sex chromosomes of flowering plants is that they have often
evolved separate sexes recently, and the genomes of dioecious species may not yet have …

The X chromosome is necessary for ovule production in Silene latifolia

P Veltsos, LF Delph - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Sex chromosomes stop recombining and accumulate differences over time. In particular,
genes on the chromosome restricted to the heterogametic sex degenerate and become non …