Molecular sexing reveals ontogenetic shifts in sex ratios and underlying processes in a dioecious tree species
Wei Lin1#, Yonghua Zhang2#, Simon A. Queenborough4, Ming Ni5, Qing He1, Buhang Li1, Chengjin Chu­1,3*
1 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
2 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China
3 State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
4 Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
5 Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada
# Authors contributed equally to this paper.
* Corresponding author: Chengjin Chu; Mailing address: Xingang Xi Road 135, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Tel: (+86)2084111541; E-mail:chuchjin@mail.sysu.edu.cn.