Sex Chromosomes in Land Plants

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Sex chromosomes and sex determination pathway dynamics in plant and animal models

(2010) BOHUSLAV JANOUSEK et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

C-Banding/DAPI and in situ Hybridization Reflect Karyotype Structure and Sex Chromosome Differentiation in Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc.

(2010) A. Grabowska-Joachimiak et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

A blessing in disguise: Transposable elements are more than parasites

(2010) Antoine Martin et al.   Epigenetics

CYTOGENETIC STUDIES ON RUMEX SUBGENUS ACETOSELLA

(2010) ASKELL Löve   HEREDITAS

Comparative Mapping Reveals Autosomal Origin of Sex Chromosome in Octoploid Fragaria virginiana

(2010) Rachel B. Spigler et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The origin of the non-recombining region of sex chromosomes in Carica and Vasconcellea

(2010) Xia Wu et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Development of Chromosome-specific Cytogenetic Markers and Merging of Linkage Fragments in Papaya

(2010) Ching Man Wai et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

Integration of Genetic and Cytological Maps and Development of a Pachytene Chromosome-based Karyotype in Papaya

(2010) Wenli Zhang et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

A gene-rich linkage map in the dioecious species Actinidia chinensis (kiwifruit) reveals putative X/Y sex-determining chromosomes

(2009) Lena G Fraser et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Evolution of Neo-Sex Chromosomes in Silene diclinis

(2009) Elaine C. Howell et al.   GENETICS

Slcyt, a Newly Identified Sex-Linked Gene, Has Recently Moved onto the X Chromosome in Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae)

(2009) V. B. Kaiser et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A transposon-induced epigenetic change leads to sex determination in melon

(2009) Antoine Martin et al.   NATURE

A Conserved Ethylene Biosynthesis Enzyme Leads to Andromonoecy in Two Cucumis Species

(2009) Adnane Boualem et al.   PLoS One

Hybridization, polyploidy, and evolutionary transitions between monoecy and dioecy in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae)

(2008) S. M. Volz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Evidence for Degeneration of the Y Chromosome in the Dioecious Plant Silene latifolia

(2008) Gabriel A.B. Marais et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A cytogenetic view of sex chromosome evolution in plants

(2008) S.J. Armstrong et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Plant sex chromosomes: molecular structure and function

(2008) M. Jamilena et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Molecular cytogenetic characterization of Rumex papillaris, a dioecious plant with an XX/XY1Y2 sex chromosome system

(2008) Rafael Navajas-Pérez et al.   GENETICA

Independent Origin of Sex Chromosomes in Two Species of the Genus Silene

(2008) Martina Mrackova et al.   GENETICS

Genome structure and emerging evidence of an incipient sex chromosome in Populus

(2008) T. Yin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Genetic mapping of sex determination in a wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, reveals earliest form of sex chromosome

(2008) R B Spigler et al.   HEREDITY

A sex-linked SCAR marker in Bryonia dioica (Cucurbitaceae), a dioecious species with XY sex-determination and homomorphic sex chromosomes

(2008) R. K. OYAMA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Accumulation of Y-specific satellite DNAs during the evolution of Rumex acetosa sex chromosomes

(2008) Beatrice Mariotti et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)

(2008) Ray Ming et al.   NATURE

A Conserved Mutation in an Ethylene Biosynthesis Enzyme Leads to Andromonoecy in Melons

(2008) A. Boualem et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of restricted recombination in sex chromosomes

(2008) Roberta Bergero et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Recent Origin of Dioecious and Gynodioecious Y Chromosomes in Papaya

(2008) Qingyi Yu et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

Low X/Y divergence in four pairs of papaya sex-linked genes

(2007) Qingyi Yu et al.   PLANT JOURNAL