Sex determination mechanisms and sex control approaches in aquaculture animals

XY Li, J Mei, CT Ge, XL Liu, JF Gui - Science China Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Aquaculture is one of the most efficient modes of animal protein production and plays an
important role in global food security. Aquaculture animals exhibit extraordinarily diverse …

Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the 'extended speciation continuum'

M Stöck, D Dedukh, R Reifová… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We review knowledge about the roles of sex chromosomes in vertebrate hybridization and
speciation, exploring a gradient of divergences with increasing reproductive isolation …

Transposon-induced epigenetic silencing in the X chromosome as a novel form of dmrt1 expression regulation during sex determination in the fighting fish

L Wang, F Sun, ZY Wan, Z Yang, YX Tay, M Lee, B Ye… - BMC biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Fishes are the one of the most diverse groups of animals with respect to their
modes of sex determination, providing unique models for uncovering the evolutionary and …

Fish reproductive biology–Reflecting on five decades of fundamental and translational research

Y Zohar - General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2021 - Elsevier
Driven by the broad diversity of species and physiologies and by reproduction-related
bottlenecks in aquaculture, the field of fish reproductive biology has rapidly grown over the …

Roles of anti-Müllerian hormone and its duplicates in sex determination and germ cell proliferation of Nile tilapia

X Liu, S Dai, J Wu, X Wei, X Zhou, M Chen, D Tan… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Duplicates of amh are crucial for fish sex determination and differentiation. In Nile tilapia,
unlike in other teleosts, amh is located on X chromosome. The Y chromosome amh (amh Δ …

The diversity and dynamics of sex determination in dioecious plants

AP Leite Montalvão, B Kersten, M Fladung… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diversity of inflorescences among flowering plants is captivating. Such charm is not only
due to the variety of sizes, shapes, colors, and flowers displayed, but also to the range of …

Generation of a chromosome‐level genome assembly for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and characterization of its sex‐determining genomic region

AJ Jasonowicz, A Simeon, M Zahm… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) is a key species in the North Pacific
Ocean and Bering Sea ecosystems, where it also supports important fisheries. However, the …

Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly Reveals Dynamic Sex Chromosomes in Neotropical Leaf-Litter Geckos (Sphaerodactylidae: Sphaerodactylus)

BJ Pinto, SE Keating, SV Nielsen… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sex determination is a critical element of successful vertebrate development, suggesting that
sex chromosome systems might be evolutionarily stable across lineages. For example …

Yes, polygenic sex determination is a thing!

TD Kocher, RP Meisel, T Gamble, KA Behrens… - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
The process of sexual development in animals is modulated by a variety of mechanisms.
Some species respond to environmental cues, while, in others, sex determination is thought …

Heterochiasmy and the establishment of gsdf as a novel sex determining gene in Atlantic halibut

RB Edvardsen, O Wallerman, T Furmanek… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Atlantic Halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) has a X/Y genetic sex determination system,
but the sex determining factor is not known. We produced a high-quality genome assembly …