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Aline Muyle Lab
We study the evolution of separate sexes and epigenetics in plants using bioinformatics, statistics and experimental approaches.
Some of the questions we try to answer are:
What are the evolutionary forces driving and constraining the evolution of sexual dimorphism in plants?
How is sexual dimorphism determined?
How do sex chromosomes evolve?
Why do some genes have differential expression between their maternal and paternal copy (imprinting)?
How is dosage compensation regulated?
How does polyploidy impact the evolution of sex chromosomes?
To answer these questions, we study various plant species including the Silene genus, Amaranthus blitum and Spinacia tetrandra.
Silene latifolia is a dioecious species with female (left) and male (right) individuals.
© Aline Muyle
Spinacia tetrandra is a dioecious species with females (left) and males (right).
© Yangfan Feng
Silene conica dissected flower (hermaphrodite).
© Yangfan Feng
Amaranthus blitum male and female flowers (monoecy).
© Yangfan Feng
We work at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the "CHANGE" department and the "Plant Reproductive Strategies" (SRP) team. The SRP team focuses on the evolution of plant reproductive systems, using a variety of approaches including theory, experimentation, bioinformatics, and statistics.
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