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Hormonal induction and stability of monosex populations in the medaka (Oryzias latipes): expression of sex-specific marker genes.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Aug 2003
Scholz Stefan, Rösler Sabine, Schäffer Michael, Hornung Ute, Schartl Manfred, Gutzeit Herwig O
Abstract excerpt
The model teleost medaka (Oryzias latipes, d-rR.YHNI strain) was used to produce offspring of a defined sex (monosex populations) by crossing experimentally produced YY and XX males to normal females. These monosex populations had the predicted chromosomal constitution as shown by a sex chromosome-specific DNA sequence. However, in XX populations the spontaneous development of males without previous exposure to...
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