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You can use the search box above to start looking for your query (e.g. species, genus, family, order, etc.). For certain taxa (Asparagus officinalis, Cannabis sativa, Carica papaya, Fragaria, Humulus, Marchantia polymorpha, Mercurialis annua, Populus, Rumex acetosa, Silene latifolia) browse their specific boxes presented below or in the Browse menu, as additional, more complete information is available for them.All search results can be exported to a CSV file.
Welcome to Sex-chrom v2.0
Sex-chrom: a database of green plant species with sex chromosomes
This database provides information on sex chromosome types and morphology,
chromosome numbers, ploidy levels, and genome sizes for green algae and land plants.
In all cases, links to the original published sources are provided.
We are grateful to users alerting of errors or publications by reporting new or overlooked evidence for
sex-chromosomes.
The authors of Sex-chrom: a database of green plant species with sex chromosomes, are:
Simona Baránkóva, Joan Pere Pascual-Díaz, Nusrat Sultana, María Pilar Alonso-Lifante, Manica Balant, Karina Barros, Iván Pérez-Lorenzo, Hana Malinska, Vratislav Peska, Boris Vyskot, Ales Kovarik, Bohuslav Janousek, Susanne Renner & Sònia Garcia.
How to cite?
Garcia, S., Janousek, B., Pascual-Díaz, J. P., & Renner, S.S. (20--). Sex-chrom v2.0,
a database of green plant species with sex chromosomes. Chromosoma, in press.
Image credits: Michael Becker (Mercurialis annua), Ivar Leidus (Fragaria), Algirdas (Populus tremula), Hagen Graebner (Humulus), Manfred Morgner (Marchantia polymorpha), all in the public domain under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Logo and banners kindly provided by Zdenek Kubat (IBP, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno). Other images obtained freely from pixabay.com.
Sex-chrom database 2021-2022
