Marta Álvarez-Presas

ORCID: 0000-0002-4825-9965 · 1 paper in corpus · active 2026
2026
Sponge genomes reveal a pre-metazoan origin of the sex determination toolkit and sex chromosomes
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8554461/v1

Abstract Sex has profoundly shaped animal biology and evolution, yet sex determination is strikingly diverse and its evolutionary origins remain poorly understood outside bilaterians. We investigate the molecular basis of sex determination…