ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2011
Evolution of sex and mating loci: an expanded view from Volvocine algae.
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- An Inversion Polymorphism Under Balancing Selection, Involving Giant Mobile Elements, in an Invasive Fungal Pathogen.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- Fossil-calibrated molecular clock data enable reconstruction of steps leading to differentiated multicellularity and anisogamy in the Volvocine algae.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Evolutionary Genomics of Sex-Related Chromosomes at the Base of the Green Lineage.Genome biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Phylotranscriptomics points to multiple independent origins of multicellularity and cellular differentiation in the volvocine algae.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Evolutionary divergence of the sex-determining geneDevelopment (Cambridge, England) · 2018Article
- Morphology, taxonomy and mating-type loci in natural populations of Volvox carteri in Taiwan.Botanical studies · 2018Article
- Non-model model organisms.BMC biology · 2017Article
- Widespread maintenance of genome heterozygosity in Schmidtea mediterranea.Nature ecology & evolution · 2016Article
- Volvox: A simple algal model for embryogenesis, morphogenesis and cellular differentiation.Developmental biology · 2016Review
- What do isogamous organisms teach us about sex and the two sexes?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Sequence of the Gonium pectorale Mating Locus Reveals a Complex and Dynamic History of Changes in Volvocine Algal Mating Haplotypes.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- An Indexed, Mapped Mutant Library Enables Reverse Genetics Studies of Biological Processes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.The Plant cell · 2016Article
- Dynamic Changes in the Transcriptome and Methylome of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii throughout Its Life Cycle.Plant physiology · 2015Article
- Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Construction of a high density SNP linkage map of kelp (Saccharina japonica) by sequencing Taq I site associated DNA and mapping of a sex determining locus.BMC genomics · 2015Article
- Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing in Volvox carteri.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Green algae and the origins of multicellularity in the plant kingdom.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
- Function of the male-gamete-specific fusion protein HAP2 in a seven-sexed ciliate.Current biology : CB · 2014Article
- Patterns and mechanisms of evolutionary transitions between genetic sex-determining systems.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2014Review
- Evolution of sexes from an ancestral mating-type specification pathway.PLoS biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Sexual reproduction in Volvocine algae coevolved with the acquisition of multicellularity. Unicellular genera such as Chlamydomonas and small colonial genera from this group have classical mating types with equal-sized gametes, while larger multicellular genera such as Volvox have differentiated males and females that produce sperm and eggs respectively. Newly available sequence from the Volvox and Chlamydomonas genomes and mating loci open up the potential to investigate how sex-determining regions co-evolve with major changes in development and sexual reproduction. The expanded size and sequence divergence between the male and female haplotypes of the Volvox mating locus (MT) not only provide insights into how the colonial Volvocine algae might have evolved sexual dimorphism, but also raise questions about why the putative ancestral-like MT locus in Chlamydomonas shows less divergence between haplotypes than expected.
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