Here a list of publications that have resulted from the Tree of Sex working group.

The Tree of Sex Consortium (2014). Sex determination: Why so many ways of doing it? PLoS Biology, 12(7): e1001899.

The Tree of Sex Consortium (2014). Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems. Scientific Data, 1:140015.

Beukeboom LW, Perrin N (2014). The Evolution of Sex Determination. Oxford University Press, 240 pp

Otto SP (2014). Selective maintenance of recombination between the sex chromosomes. J. Evolutionary Biology, 27(7): 1431-1442.

Blackmon H. & Demuth, JP (2014) Estimating Tempo and Mode of Y Chromosome Turnover: Explaining Y Chromosome Loss With the Fragile Y Hypothesis. Genetics, 197, 561-572 (2014).

Normark BB & Ross L (2014) Genetic conflict, kin and the origins of novel genetic systems. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 369(1642):20130364.

Ross L, Blackmon H, Lorite P, Gokhman VE & Hardy NB. Recombination, genome architecture and eusociality in the Hymenoptera. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28:1 105-116.

Blackmon H, Ross L, Bachtrog D. (2014). Sex determination, sex chromosomes and karyotype evolution in insects. Journal of Heredity, 108:1 78-93.

Blackmon, H., Hardy, N.B. & L. Ross. The evolutionary dynamics of haplodiploidy in Mites (Acari). Evolution, 69:11 2971-2978

Goldberg, E. E., Otto, S. P., Vamosi, J. C., Mayrose, I., Sabath, N., Ming, R., & Ashman, T-L. (2017). Macroevolutionary synthesis of flowering plant sexual systems. Evolution, 71, 898-912.

Pennell, M. W., Kirkpatrick, M., Otto, S. P., Vamosi, J. C., Peichel, C. L., Valenzuela, N., & Kitano, J. (2015). Y Fuse? Sex chromosome fusions in fishes and reptiles. PLoS Genetics, 11, e1005237.

Pennell, M. W., Mank, J. E., & Peichel, C. L. (2018). Transitions in sex determination and sex chromosomes across vertebrate species. Molecular Ecology, 27, 3950-3963.

Sabath, N., Goldberg, E. E., Glick, L., Einhorn, M., Ashman, T-L., Ming, R., Otto, S. P., Vamosi, J. C., & Mayrose, I. (2016). Dioecy does not consistently accelerate or slow lineage diversification across multiple genera of angiosperms. New Phytologist, 209, 1223-1235.

Sabath, N., Itescu, Y., Feldman, A., Meiri, S., Mayrose, I., & Valenzuela, N. (2016). Sex determination, longevity, and the birth and death of reptilian species. Ecology and Evolution, 6, 5207-5220.


Several groups have used or expanded on the data collected by the project.

Xirocostas, Z. A., Everingham, S. E., & Moles, A. T. (2020). The sex with the reduced sex chromosome dies earlier: a comparison across the tree of life. Biology Letters, 16, 20190867.

Kattge, J. et al. (2020) TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26: 119-188.