ArticlePlant reproduction2021
Switching it up: algal insights into sexual transitions.
Article in Plant reproduction, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Characterization of the transposable element landscape shaping the Ectocarpus genome.Genome biology · 2025Article
- 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
- 3D chromatin maps of a brown alga reveal U/V sex chromosome spatial organization.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Interactions between U and V sex chromosomes during the life cycle of Ectocarpus.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Parallel loss of sexual reproduction in field populations of a brown alga sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of asexuality.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- HAP2-Mediated Gamete Fusion: Lessons From the World of Unicellular Eukaryotes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
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Abstract
While the process of meiosis is highly conserved across eukaryotes, the sexual systems that govern life cycle phase transitions are surprisingly labile. Switches between sexual systems have profound evolutionary and ecological consequences, in particular for plants, but our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms and ultimate causes underlying these transitions is still surprisingly incomplete. We explore here the idea that brown and green algae may be interesting comparative models that can increase our understanding of relevant processes in plant reproductive biology, from evolution of gamete dimorphism, gametogenesis, sex determination and transitions in sex-determining systems.
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