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. 2021 Mar 16;21(6):1966–1982. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13362

TABLE 1.

Summary of current information about sex‐linked regions in Populus and Salix

Taxon Species Male or female heterogamety Chromosome carrying the sex‐determining locus Estimated size of the sex‐linked regions (kb) References
Populus (poplars) P. balsamifera Male 19 ~100 (Y) Geraldes et al. (2015); McKown et al. (2017)
P. deltoides Male 19 ~300 (X, Y) Xue et al. (2020)
P. euphratica Male 14 ~84 (X), 658 (Y) Yang et al. (2020)
P. nigra Male 19 Unknown Gaudet et al. (2008);
P. tremula Male 19 ~1000 (Y) Müller et al. (2020)
P. trichocarpa Male 19 ~100 (Y) Geraldes et al. (2015); McKown et al. (2017); Zhou, Macaya‐Sanz, Schmutz, et al. (2020))
P. tremuloides Male 19 2000 (Y) Pakull et al. (2009); Kersten et al. (2014)
P. alba Female 19 ~140 (W), 33 (Z) Müller et al. (2020); Yang et al. (2020)
Salix (willows) subgenus Salix clade
S. dunnii Male 7 3205 (X) This study
S. nigra Male 7 2000 Sanderson et al. (2021)
section Amygdalinae
S. triandra Female 15 ~6500 Li et al. (2020)
ChamaetiaVetrix clade
S. purpurea Female 15 6800 (W), 4000 (Z) Zhou, Macaya‐Sanz, Carlson, et al. (2020))
S. suchowensis Female 15 Unknown Hou et al. (2015)
S. viminalis Female 15 3100–3400 (W, Z) Almeida et al. (2020)