ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Climate-driven shifts in adult sex ratios via sex reversals: the type of sex determination matters.
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- Framework for multi-stressor physiological response evaluation in amphibian risk assessment and conservation.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- HerpSexDet: the herpetological database of sex determination and sex reversal.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Novel genetic sex markers reveal unexpected lack of, and similar susceptibility to, sex reversal in free-living common toads in both natural and anthropogenic habitats.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Evolutionary and demographic consequences of temperature-induced masculinization under climate warming: the effects of mate choice.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Sex ratios and bimaturism differ between temperature-dependent and genetic sex-determination systems in reptiles.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Developmental asynchrony and antagonism of sex determination pathways in a lizard with temperature-induced sex reversal.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Demographic causes of adult sex ratio variation and their consequences for parental cooperation.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Adult sex ratios and reproductive strategies: a critical re-examination of sex differences in human and animal societies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Demographic and genetic consequences of disturbed sex determination.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Reproductive competition and sexual selection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
Sex reversals whereby individuals of one genetic sex develop the phenotype of the opposite sex occur in ectothermic vertebrates with genetic sex-determination systems that are sensitive to extreme temperatures during sexual differentiation. Recent rises in global temperatures have led researchers to predict that sex reversals will become more common, resulting in the distortion of many populations' sex ratios. However, it is unclear whether susceptibility to climate-driven sex-ratio shifts depends on the type of sex determination that varies across species. First, we show here using individual-based theoretical models that XX/XY (male-heterogametic) and ZZ/ZW (female-heterogametic) sex-determination systems can respond differentially to temperature-induced sex reversals. Interestingly, the impacts of climate warming on adult sex ratio (ASR) depend on the effects of both genotypic and phenotypic sex on survival and reproduction. Second, we analyse the temporal changes of ASR in natural amphibian populations using data from the literature, and find that ASR shifted towards males in ZZ/ZW species over the past 60 years, but did not change significantly in XX/XY species. Our results highlight the fact that we need a better understanding of the interactions between genetic and environmental sex-determining mechanisms to predict the responses of ectotherms to climate change and the associated extinction risks.This article is part of the themed issue 'Adult sex ratios and reproductive decisions: a critical re-examination of sex differences in human and animal societies'.
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