Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution

Sex determination and sex chromosome evolution have been active fields throughout Heredity’s 70-year history. Indeed, already in the first issue in 1947, Winge and Ditlevsen investigated the X-linked inheritance of male colouration in guppy in a paper entitled “Colour inheritance and sex determination in Lebistes” that have been cited over 120 times and is still being cited. Since then, over 500 relevant papers for evolutionary biologists interested in sex determination and sex chromosomes have been published in Heredity. Below I highlight 13 papers in these fields that were published either during first three or the last two years of Heredity’s history. They cover a range of subjects, including sex determination, X-linked inheritance, hybrid dysfunction, genome evolution and gene expression.

Bengt Hansson, Editor