TY - JOUR
T1 - The Tree of Sex consortium
T2 - A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes
AU - Jeffries, Daniel
AU - Benvenuto, Chiara
AU - Böhne, Astrid
AU - Fraïsse, Christelle
AU - Garcia, Sònia
AU - Jay, Paul
AU - Kratochvíl, Lukáš
AU - McDonough-Goldstein, Caitlin E.
AU - Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora
AU - Sotero-Caio, Cibele G.
AU - Valenzuela, Nicole
AU - Wilson, Melissa A.
AU - Bliznina, Aleksandra
AU - Peona, Valentina
AU - Desvignes, Thomas
AU - Lajmi, Aparna
AU - Hodson, Christina N.
AU - Guiguen, Yann
AU - Moura, Mónica
AU - Jay, Paul
AU - Slotte, Tanja
AU - Jordal, Bjarte H.
AU - White, Michael A.
AU - Schiffer, Philipp
AU - Lazarević, Maja
AU - Wilson, Christopher G.
AU - Meier, Joana Isabel
AU - Koene, Joris M.
AU - Fraisse, Christelle
AU - Scharmann, Mathias
AU - Onsoy, Bahadir
AU - Kitano, Jun
AU - Lin, Giulia
AU - Huylmans, Ann Kathrin
AU - Alexander, Emmarie P.
AU - McDonough-Goldstein, Caitlin E.
AU - Calhim, Sara
AU - Mohan, Ashwini V.
AU - Pau, Shana
AU - Smith, Sophie Helen
AU - Molinier, Cecile
AU - Rowe, Melissah
AU - Beukeboom, Leo W.
AU - Wright, Stephen I.
AU - Kuntner, Matjaž
AU - Pannell, John R.
AU - Dutoit, Ludovic
AU - Nemesházi, Edina
AU - Gamble, Tony
AU - Szoevenyi, Peter
AU - Jaron, Kamil S.
N1 - Data archiving: no data
PY - 2025/7/1
Y1 - 2025/7/1
N2 - Reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life that affects all levels of biology, from genomes and development to population dynamics and diversification. The first Tree of Sex database synthesized a vast diversity of reproductive strategies and their intriguing distribution throughout eukaryotes. A decade on, we are reviving this initiative and greatly expanding its scope to provide the most comprehensive integration of knowledge on eukaryotic reproduction to date. In this perspective, we first identify important gaps in our current knowledge of reproductive strategies across eukaryotes. We then highlight a selection of questions that will benefit most from this new Tree of Sex project, including those related to the evolution of sex, modes of sex determination, sex chromosomes, and the consequences of various reproductive strategies. Finally, we outline our vision for the new Tree of Sex database and the consortium that will create it (treeofsex.org). The new database will cover all Eukaryota and include a wide selection of biological traits. It will also incorporate genomic data types that were scarce or non-existent at the time of the first Tree of Sex initiative. The new database will be publicly accessible, stable, and self-sustaining, thus greatly improving the accessibility of reproductive knowledge to researchers across disciplines for years to come. Lastly, the consortium will persist after the database is created to serve as a collaborative framework for research, prioritizing ethical standards in the collection, use, and sharing of reproductive data. The new Tree of Sex consortium is open, and we encourage all who are interested in this topic to join us.
AB - Reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life that affects all levels of biology, from genomes and development to population dynamics and diversification. The first Tree of Sex database synthesized a vast diversity of reproductive strategies and their intriguing distribution throughout eukaryotes. A decade on, we are reviving this initiative and greatly expanding its scope to provide the most comprehensive integration of knowledge on eukaryotic reproduction to date. In this perspective, we first identify important gaps in our current knowledge of reproductive strategies across eukaryotes. We then highlight a selection of questions that will benefit most from this new Tree of Sex project, including those related to the evolution of sex, modes of sex determination, sex chromosomes, and the consequences of various reproductive strategies. Finally, we outline our vision for the new Tree of Sex database and the consortium that will create it (treeofsex.org). The new database will cover all Eukaryota and include a wide selection of biological traits. It will also incorporate genomic data types that were scarce or non-existent at the time of the first Tree of Sex initiative. The new database will be publicly accessible, stable, and self-sustaining, thus greatly improving the accessibility of reproductive knowledge to researchers across disciplines for years to come. Lastly, the consortium will persist after the database is created to serve as a collaborative framework for research, prioritizing ethical standards in the collection, use, and sharing of reproductive data. The new Tree of Sex consortium is open, and we encourage all who are interested in this topic to join us.
KW - asexual reproduction
KW - biodiversity
KW - database
KW - ontology
KW - sex chromosomes
KW - sex determination
KW - sexual reproduction
U2 - 10.1093/jeb/voaf053
DO - 10.1093/jeb/voaf053
M3 - Article
C2 - 40336333
AN - SCOPUS:105012595850
SN - 1010-061X
VL - 38
SP - 861
EP - 886
JO - Journal of Evolutionary Biology
JF - Journal of Evolutionary Biology
IS - 7
ER -