Qualifier
sex
Definition sex of the organism from which the sequence was obtained; sex is used for eukaryotic organisms that undergo meiosis and have sexually dimorphic gametes
Value Format 
"text"
Example /sex="female"
/sex="male"
/sex="hermaphrodite"
/sex="unisexual"
/sex="bisexual"
/sex="asexual"
/sex="monoecious" [or monecious]
/sex="dioecious" [or diecious]
Comment /sex should be used (instead of /mating_type) in the Metazoa, Embryophyta, Rhodophyta & Phaeophyceae; /mating_type should be used (instead of /sex) in the Bacteria, Archaea & Fungi; neither /sex nor /mating_type should be used in the viruses; outside of the taxa listed above, /mating_type should be used unless the value of the qualifier is taken from the vocabulary given in the examples above