ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
Living together and living apart: the sexual lives of bryophytes.
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- Navigating the Semantic Labyrinth of "Sex" in the Study of Reproductive Trait Evolution.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
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- Sex chromosome evolution in haploid plants: Microchromosomes, disappearing chromosomes, and giant chromosomes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Review
- Comparative Patterns of Sex Expression and Sex Ratios in Island and Continental Bryophyte Populations.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Factors accounting for limited sexual reproduction in a long-lived unisexual plant species.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Landscape Heterogeneity Drives Genetic Diversity in the Highly Dispersive MossPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Beyond Haldane's rule: Sex-biased hybrid dysfunction for all modes of sex determination.eLife · 2024Review
- Predicting the Threat Status of Mosses Using Functional Traits.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Life-history characteristics and historical factors are important to explain regional variation in reproductive traits and genetic diversity in perennial mosses.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- The spatial arrangement of sexes is related to reproductive allocation in mosses: a comparative study of reproductive allocation in three different monoicous sexual systems.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in Desiccation Tolerance Varies by Colony in the Mesic LiverwortPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self-compatible mating system.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021Article
- Plant sexual reproduction: perhaps the current plant two-sex model should be replaced with three- and four-sex models?Plant reproduction · 2021Article
- Microarthropod contributions to fitness variation in the common mossProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- UV Chromosomes and Haploid Sexual Systems.Trends in plant science · 2018Review
- Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Article
- Selection on the gametophyte: Modeling alternation of generations in plants.Applications in plant sciencesArticle
- Genotypic confirmation of a biased phenotypic sex ratio in a dryland moss using restriction fragment length polymorphisms.Applications in plant sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Haploid gametophytes of bryophytes spread by clonal growth but mate locally, within an area defined by the range of sperm movement. Rarity of establishment from spores or vegetative competition can result in unisexual populations unable to reproduce sexually. Females typically outcompete males, probably because females expend fewer resources than males on the production of gametes. Extreme sexual dimorphism-tiny males growing as epiphytes on much larger females-has evolved many times. Haploid selfing is common in bryophytes with bisexual gametophytes, and results in completely homozygous sporophytes. Spores from these sporophytes recapitulate the genotype of their single haploid parent. This process can be considered analogous to 'asexual' reproduction with 'sexual' reproduction occurring after rare outcrossing between haploid parents. Ferns also produce bisexual haploid gametophytes but, unlike bryophytes, haploid outcrossing predominates over haploid selfing. This difference is probably related to clonal growth and vegetative competition occurring in the haploid but not the diploid phase in bryophytes, but the reverse in ferns. Ferns are thereby subject to stronger inbreeding depression than bryophytes.This article is part of the themed issue 'Weird sex: the underappreciated diversity of sexual reproduction'.
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