0539899 - BFÚ 2021 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Baránková, Simona - Pascual-Diaz, J.P. - Sultana, N. - Alonso-Lifante, M.P. - Balant, M. - Barros, K. - D'Ambrosio, U. - Malínská, H. - Peška, Vratislav - Lorenzo, I.P. - Kovařík, Aleš - Vyskot, Boris - Janoušek, Bohuslav - Garcia, S.
Sex-chrom, a database on plant sex chromosomes.
New Phytologist. Roč. 227, č. 6 (2020), s. 1594-1604. ISSN 0028-646X. E-ISSN 1469-8137
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA16-08698S; GA ČR(CZ) GA18-06147S; GA ČR(CZ) GA19-03442S
Institutional support: RVO:68081707
Keywords : y-chromosome * evolution * dioecy * mechanism
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 10.152, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access
Result website:
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.16635
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16635

Sex determination and sex chromosomes have been studied extensively owing to their importance in evolutionary biology. Species of dioecious plants, which may have sex chromosomes, offer us unique insights into the history of this phenomenon across the Tree of Life. Here, we present Sex‐chrom: a database on plant sex chromosomes (www.sexchrom.csic.es), which aims to provide an easily accessible and organized information source for scientists and a general audience interested in this field. Basic data such as complete taxonomic classification of the species, chromosome number, genome size (2C), ploidy level, sex determination mechanism, presence of homomorphic or heteromorphic sex chromosomes and their corresponding sources are readily available for 178 species of 84 genera and 65 families. Besides, the database contains specific sections for 10 selected model systems in plant sex chromosome research such as Silene latifolia and Rumex acetosa. In these sections, more detailed information also is available, including data on sex‐linked genes, transposable elements or tandemly repeated DNA present in sex chromosomes. Data have been extracted from 431 sources published between 1919 and 2020.

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