Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Genus-wide sequencing supports a two-locus model for sex-determination in Phoenix

  • Maria F. Torres,
  • Lisa S. Mathew,
  • Ikhlak Ahmed,
  • Iman K. Al-Azwani,
  • Robert Krueger,
  • Diego Rivera-Nuñez,
  • Yasmin A. Mohamoud,
  • Andrew G. Clark,
  • Karsten Suhre,
  • Joel A. Malek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06375-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The origin and evolution of separate sexes in plants are long-standing questions. Here, the authors use genus-wide sequencing to identify sex determining candidate genes in the genus Phoenix and demonstrate the consistence with the previously proposed two-mutation model.