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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * X0 sex-determination system


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is only one line about parthenogenesis, and a lack of additional information. There are definitely large review articles and book chapters on this topic, so it seems like there should be more information. The last person to leave a message in the talk page proposed deleting the page due to lack of/bad information.


 * Sources
 * Blackmon, Heath, Laura Ross, and Doris Bachtrog. 2017. “Sex Determination, Sex Chromosomes, and Karyotype Evolution in Insects.” The Journal of Heredity 108 (1): 78–93. Dutrillaux, Anne-Marie, and Bernard Dutrillaux. 2017. “Evolution of the Sex Chromosomes in Beetles. I. The Loss of the Y Chromosome.” Cytogenetic and Genome Research. https://doi.org/10.1159/000478075 .  Kaiser, Vera B., and Doris Bachtrog. 2010. “Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Insects.” Annual Review of Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-genet-102209-163600.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Temperature-dependent sex determination


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article seems pretty sufficient to me, but it is rated start-class, so there is likely a lot more information that could be added. The talk page is mainly discussing specifics of articles/studies.


 * Sources
 * Kallimanis, A. S. 2010. “Temperature Dependent Sex Determination and Climate Change.” Oikos. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17674.x . Mitchell, N. J., and F. J. Janzen. 2010. “Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination and Contemporary Climate Change.” Sexual Development: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Endocrinology, Embryology, and Pathology of Sex Determination and Differentiation 4 (1-2): 129–40.  Navara, Kristen J. 2018. Choosing Sexes: Mechanisms and Adaptive Patterns of Sex Allocation in Vertebrates. Springer.  Ospina-Álvarez, Natalia, and Francesc Piferrer. 2008. “Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Fish Revisited: Prevalence, a Single Sex Ratio Response Pattern, and Possible Effects of Climate Change.” PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002837.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Sexual differentiation *


 * Article Evaluation
 * As explained further in the evaluation assignment, there is a striking lack of any information on animals other than humans, even though there is an article by that exact name that goes more into depth on humans, and it seems like this article should serve as an overall review of sexual differentiation among different species. There is also little to no mention of environmental factors or epigenetic regulation playing a role in sexual differentiation. Also, a massive amount of information (the entire lead) is missing citations. It should also be noted that "sexual development" redirects to a page about human puberty. The last comment left on the talk page was asking for more non-human animal related content.


 * Sources
 * Wilhelm, Dagmar, Stephen Palmer, and Peter Koopman. 2007. “Sex Determination and Gonadal Development in Mammals.” Physiological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00009.2006.
 * Chue, Justin, and Craig A. Smith. 2011. “Sex Determination and Sexual Differentiation in the Avian Model.” The FEBS Journal 278 (7): 1027–34.
 * Kuroiwa, Asato. 2018. “Sex Determination and Differentiation in Birds.” Diversity and Commonality in Animals. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56609-0_19.
 * Major, Andrew T., and Craig A. Smith. 2016. “Sex Reversal in Birds.” Sexual Development: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Endocrinology, Embryology, and Pathology of Sex Determination and Differentiation 10 (5-6): 288–300.
 * Kohno, Satomi, Benjamin B. Parrott, Ryohei Yatsu, Shinichi Miyagawa, Brandon C. Moore, Taisen Iguchi, and Louis Guillette Jr. 2014. “Gonadal Differentiation in Reptiles Exhibiting Environmental Sex Determination.” Sexual Development: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Endocrinology, Embryology, and Pathology of Sex Determination and Differentiation 8 (5): 208–26.
 * Warr, Nick, and Andy Greenfield. 2012. “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Gonadal Sex Reversal in Mice and Humans.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Developmental Biology 1 (4): 559–77.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Sex chromosome


 * Article Evaluation
 * Similar to the sexual differentiation article, this piece focuses only on humans with the exception of about five lines of broadly based information. It is rated start-class.


 * Sources
 * Xu, Luohao, Gabriel Auer, Valentina Peona, Alexander Suh, Yuan Deng, Shaohong Feng, Guojie Zhang, et al. 2019. “Dynamic Evolutionary History and Gene Content of Sex Chromosomes across Diverse Songbirds.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (5): 834–44. Zhou, Qi, Jilin Zhang, Doris Bachtrog, Na An, Quanfei Huang, Erich D. Jarvis, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Guojie Zhang. 2014. “Complex Evolutionary Trajectories of Sex Chromosomes across Bird Taxa.” Science 346 (6215): 1246338.
 * Fridolfsson, A. K., H. Cheng, N. G. Copeland, N. A. Jenkins, H. C. Liu, T. Raudsepp, T. Woodage, B. Chowdhary, J. Halverson, and H. Ellegren. 1998. “Evolution of the Avian Sex Chromosomes from an Ancestral Pair of Autosomes.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (14): 8147–52.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Sex reversal *


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is remarkably short, and I know there have been studies in recent years looking at the potential of adult organisms to change sex. Additionally, the only organism discussed specifically is the North American green frog. Definitely more sections could be added. There are no comments on the talk page right now.


 * Sources
 * Holleley, Clare E., Stephen D. Sarre, Denis O’Meally, and Arthur Georges. 2016. “Sex Reversal in Reptiles: Reproductive Oddity or Powerful Driver of Evolutionary Change?” Sexual Development: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Evolution, Endocrinology, Embryology, and Pathology of Sex Determination and Differentiation 10 (5-6): 279–87.
 * Warr, Nick, and Andy Greenfield. 2012. “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Gonadal Sex Reversal in Mice and Humans.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Developmental Biology 1 (4): 559–77.
 * Krisfalusi, M., and J. G. Cloud. 1999. “Gonadal Sex Reversal in Triploid Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss).” The Journal of Experimental Zoology 284 (4): 466–72.
 * Xu, Gefeng, Tianqing Huang, Xian Jin, Cunhe Cui, Depeng Li, Cong Sun, Ying Han, and Zhenbo Mu. 2016. “Morphology, Sex Steroid Level and Gene Expression Analysis in Gonadal Sex Reversal of Triploid Female (XXX) Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss).” Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 42 (1): 193–202.
 * Coveney, D., G. Shaw, and M. B. Renfree. 2001. “Estrogen-Induced Gonadal Sex Reversal in the Tammar Wallaby.” Biology of Reproduction 65 (2): 613–21.
 * Zhao, Liang, Terje Svingen, Ee Ting Ng, and Peter Koopman. 2015. “Female-to-Male Sex Reversal in Mice Caused by Transgenic Overexpression of Dmrt1.” Development  142 (6): 1083–88.