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.