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Sex identification by male-specific growth hormone pseudogene (GH-psi) in Oncorhynchus masou complex and a related hybrid.
Genetica - 1 Jan 2001
Zhang Q, Nakayama I, Fujiwara A, Kobayashi T, Oohara, Masaoka T, Kitamura S, Devlin R H
Abstract excerpt
It is often difficult to identify sexes of many fish species by conventional cytological method because of the lack of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Isolation of sex-specific molecular markers is thus important for sexing and for understanding sex chromosome evolution in these species. We have identified genetic sexes by PCR-based male-specificity of a growth hormone pseudogene (GH-psi) in masu and Biwa salmon,...
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