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Environment and sex determination in farmed fish.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP - 1 Dec 2001
Baroiller J F, D'Cotta H
Abstract excerpt
A plasticity of gonadal sex differentiation was reported in the 1930s following exogenous steroid treatments in fish, but demonstration that environmental factors (temperature, pH, density and social interactions) could influence the sex ratio in gonochoristic species has been relatively recent. In fish, as in reptiles and amphibians displaying environmental sex determination, the main environmental factor...
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