A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards 'sexomics'

M Stöck, L Kratochvíl, H Kuhl… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Triggers and biological processes controlling male or female gonadal differentiation vary in
vertebrates, with sex determination (SD) governed by environmental factors or simple to …

Sex chromosomes and master sex-determining genes in turtles and other reptiles

D Thépot - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among tetrapods, the well differentiated heteromorphic sex chromosomes of birds and
mammals have been highly investigated and their master sex-determining (MSD) gene …

“It's been a Process”: A Multiple Case Study of Biology Instructor Efforts to Reform their Sex and Gender Curriculum to be More Inclusive of Students with Queer …

EP Driessen, KE Walker, T Hallman… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - lifescied.org
Inaccurate sex and gender narratives have saturated the political landscape, resulting in
legal restrictions for people with queer genders. Biology educators can correct these false …

Post-meiotic mechanism of facultative parthenogenesis in gonochoristic whiptail lizard species

DV Ho, D Tormey, A Odell, AA Newton, RR Schnittker… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Facultative parthenogenesis (FP) has historically been regarded as rare in vertebrates, but
in recent years incidences have been reported in a growing list of fish, reptile, and bird …

Discovery of facultative parthenogenesis in a new world crocodile

W Booth, BA Levine, JB Corush, MA Davis… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, there has been an astounding growth in the documentation of
vertebrate facultative parthenogenesis (FP). This unusual reproductive mode has been …

Premeiotic endoreplication is essential for obligate parthenogenesis in geckos

D Dedukh, M Altmanová, J Klíma… - Development, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Obligate parthenogenesis evolved in reptiles convergently several times, mainly through
interspecific hybridization. The obligate parthenogenetic complexes typically include both …

Exceptional long-term sperm storage by a female vertebrate

BA Levine, GW Schuett, W Booth - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Females of many vertebrate species have the capacity to store sperm within their
reproductive tracts for prolonged periods of time. Termed long-term sperm storage, this …

A new diploid parthenogenetic whiptail lizard from Sonora, Mexico, is the “missing link” in the evolutionary transition to polyploidy

AJ Barley, TW Reeder… - The American …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Transitions between sexual and unisexual reproductive modes have significant
consequences for the evolutionary trajectories of species. These transitions have occurred …

Premeiotic endoreplication is the mechanism of obligate parthenogenesis in rock lizards of the genus Darevskia

D Dedukh, M Altmanová, R Petrosyan… - Biology …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Among vertebrates, obligate parthenogenesis occurs exclusively in squamate reptiles.
Premeiotic endoreplication in a small subset of develo** oocytes has been documented …

Independent evolution of sex chromosomes in eublepharid geckos, a lineage with environmental and genotypic sex determination

E Pensabene, L Kratochvíl, M Rovatsos - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
Geckos demonstrate a remarkable variability in sex determination systems, but our limited
knowledge prohibits accurate conclusions on the evolution of sex determination in this …