ArticleMolecular ecology2022
Evolutionary stability inferred for a free ranging lizard with sex-reversal.
Article in Molecular ecology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Complex effects of sex reversal on reproductive success in wild frogs.Science advances · 2026Article
- Evolution, Development, and the Incoherence of Sex: A Framework for Multiple Sex Concepts.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Thermal performance curves, activity and survival in a free-ranging ectotherm.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Prevalence and implications of sex reversal in free-living birds.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Higher Sex-Reversal Rate of Urban Frogs in a Common-Garden Experiment Suggests Adaptive Microevolution.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
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- Boom-bust population dynamics drive rapid genetic change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Metabolic consequences of sex reversal in two lizard species: a test of the like-genotype and like-phenotype hypotheses.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Corrigendum.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Evolutionary stability inferred for a free ranging lizard with sex-reversal.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- 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
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- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2022
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The sex of vertebrates is typically determined genetically, but reptile sex can also be determined by developmental temperature. In some reptiles, temperature interacts with genotype to reverse sex, potentially leading to transitions from a chromosomal to a temperature-dependent sex determining system. Transitions between such systems in nature are accelerated depending on the frequency and fitness of sex-reversed individuals. The Central Bearded Dragon, Pogona vitticeps, exhibits female heterogamety (ZZ/ZW) but can have its sex reversed from ZZ male to ZZ female by high incubation temperatures. The species exhibits sex-reversal in the wild and it has been suggested that climate change and fitness of sex-reversed individuals could be increasing the frequency of reversal within the species range. Transitions to temperature-dependent sex determination require low levels of dispersal and high (>50%) rates of sex-reversal. Here, we combine genotype-by-sequencing, identification of phenotypic and chromosomal sex, exhaustive field surveys, and radio telemetry to examine levels of genetic structure, rates of sex-reversal, movement, space use, and survival of P. vitticeps in a location previously identified as a hot spot for sex-reversal. We find that the species exhibits low levels of population structure (FST ~0.001) and a modest (~17%) rate of sex-reversal, and that sex-reversed and nonsex-reversed females have similar survival and behavioural characteristics to each other. Overall, our data indicate this system is evolutionary stable, although we do not rule out the prospect of a more gradual transition in sex-determining mechanisms in the future in a more fragmented landscape and as global temperatures increase.
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