User talk:Gwiggins1

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:57, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review

My first comment is to create appropriate headings/titles for your sections. Use a different font or something that differentiates each section from the other. There are a few grammatical errors but the lead section is very well written. I found the topic interesting and I have never heard of the importance of sexual selection in plants in general, much less the Arabidopsis thaliana. Overall the article is very clear and informative. Jroberson4 (talk) 20:09, 28 March 2019 (UTC) Jroberson4

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Grant,

 Your paper was very informative and the flow worked well. The only thing I noticed that needed to be fixed were the few grammatical errors that were pointed out and placement of headings ect. Great job finding a topic that was interesting and also not mentioned enough and good job explaining it. Once you add your headings and fix the minor errors your paper will be great

Whouse141 (talk) 02:33, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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Good job overall! Several run on sentences throughout the sections could be fixed. Also, I suggest adding links to advanced terms used in article, so reader can simply click and get a background on certain topics. A few minor grammatical errors, easily fixed. Good job presenting data from sources. Just a few changes could really make this article great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcook1400 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Grant! I think that this is a great start. I am, however, going to disagree with the reviewers on the clarity of the article. I think that you should change the title/topic to Genomic Evidence for Sexual Selection in Arabadopsis (or plants generally, since there are other studies on this in other plants), since that is what you are focusing on. You have included a lot of good information, but sometimes the relevance of particular statements is not clear to me (I have put some specific comments in your article to demonstrate what I mean). I think you need to talk more about sexual selection. For example, "Many hypotheses speculate how these genes affect adaptive evolution in animals..." is in your lead section, but you don't talk about that at all in your article. What is the general understanding about how sexual selection would operate in hermaphroditic self-crossing plant? How can genomic studies lend insight into that? (each of those questions could be a section in your article). How is sex-biased gene expression evidence of sexual selection?

You don't need to talk about A. thaliana as much (at least the basics of size, discovery and range, as this is not relevant to your article and there is already a Wikipedia article about that you can link to). A brief description, and talking about the biology relevant to sexual selection should be sufficient. And as far as I can tell, you don't talk about how sexual selection is operating. From the main paper you cite it seems as though the genes with sex-biased expression are involved in pollination and pollen tube production, which suggests pollination competition as the mechanism. I would talk about this. You talk about pollination mechanisms, but don't relate that to sexual selection. What does your last section "Effectiveness of self-fertilization" have to do with sexual selection? I think you have most of the information you need in your article, but try organizing it a bit more in an outline form (with many more sub-sections).

You reviewers have some good specific comments, so after you do some restructuring, then take a look and respond to their comments as well. If you have any questions, please come and talk to me! Advevol (talk) 18:15, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review Responses

Thank you all for the edits and comments, I found them very helpful for my article. I started out by adding more structure to my sections and clearly defining each section. Any identified grammatical errors were corrected and improvements in flow were made to the areas that needed it. More specifically on the content, I agree on needing to adjust my title as well as my organizational structure of how I present the information. I elaborated more on the aspect of sexual selection and how pollen mechanisms associated with sex-biased genes are a direct influence to the process. I also removed unnecessary information that can be found through the use of separate links. Again thank you for the great edits and comments.

Ways to improve Sexual selection in arabidopsis thaliana

Hello, Gwiggins1,

Thanks for creating Sexual selection in arabidopsis thaliana! I edit here too, under the username Doomsdayer520 and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Thank you for starting the informative new article on "Sexual selection in arabidopsis thaliana".

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---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:52, 18 April 2019 (UTC)