Elvira Hörandl

The paper identifies a novel sex-determining gene in willows that replaces the ancestral ARR17-like duplicates in the S. polyclona complex.

The paper studies allopolyploidization in weeping willow, showing how sex chromosomes evolve and revert after hybridization between two dioecious species.

The paper assembles gap-free X and Y chromosomes of Salix arbutifolia, revealing evolutionary changes in sex determination from XY to ZW without altering the sex-determining region.

The paper investigates sex determination system turnovers in willows, showing that the 15XY system is ancestral and that gene flow is reduced between species with different SDSs.

The paper presents the first nuclear and mitochondrial genome sequences of Ranunculus, along with plastome evolution, using efficient assembly strategies for non-model plants.