Article
Evolutionary diversity and turn-over of sex determination in teleost fishes.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2009
Mank J E, Avise J C
Abstract excerpt
Sex determination, due to the obvious association with reproduction and Darwinian fitness, has been traditionally assumed to be a relatively conserved trait. However, research on teleost fishes has shown that this need not be the case, as these animals display a remarkable diversity in the ways that they determine sex. These different mechanisms, which include constitutive genetic mechanisms on sex chromosomes,...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Fishes
- Genetic Variation
- Sex Determination Processes