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Nº613/1420 - Sex and/or asex: insights from brown seaweeds
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Authors
Susana Coelho
Affiliations
Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany
Abstract
In many eukaryotes, male and female sexes are determined during the (haploid) gametophyte stage of the life cycle, by the presence of a female (U) or male (V) sex chromosomes. The rise, evolution and demise of U/V systems have remained enigmatic to date. I will present how we analyzing genomes spanning the entire brown algal phylogeny to decipher their sex- (and asex) determination evolutionary history.