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Evolution of DMY, a newly emergent male sex-determination gene of medaka fish.
Genetics - 1 Apr 2004
Zhang Jianzhi
Abstract excerpt
The Japanese medaka fish Oryzias latipes has an XX/XY sex-determination system. The Y-linked sex-determination gene DMY is a duplicate of the autosomal gene DMRT1, which encodes a DM-domain-containing transcriptional factor. DMY appears to have originated recently within Oryzias, allowing a detailed evolutionary study of the initial steps that led to the new gene and new sex-determination system. Here I analyze...
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