1. Sexy ways: approaches to studying plant sex chromosomes.
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Hobza, Roman, Bačovský, Václav, Čegan, Radim, Horáková, Lucie, Hubinský, Marcel, Janíček, Tomáš, Janoušek, Bohuslav, Jedlička, Pavel, Kružlicová, Jana, Kubát, Zdeněk, Lorenzo, José Luis Rodríguez, Novotná, Pavla, and Hudzieczek, Vojtěch
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SEX chromosomes ,CHROMOSOME analysis ,CHROMOSOME structure ,MOLECULAR biology ,PLANT epigenetics - Abstract
Sex chromosomes have evolved in many plant species with separate sexes. Current plant research is shifting from examining the structure of sex chromosomes to exploring their functional aspects. New studies are progressively unveiling the specific genetic and epigenetic mechanisms responsible for shaping distinct sexes in plants. While the fundamental methods of molecular biology and genomics are generally employed for the analysis of sex chromosomes, it is often necessary to modify classical procedures not only to simplify and expedite analyses but sometimes to make them possible at all. In this review, we demonstrate how, at the level of structural and functional genetics, cytogenetics, and bioinformatics, it is essential to adapt established procedures for sex chromosome analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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