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Sex determination diversity and sex chromosome evolution in poeciliid fish.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2009
Schultheis C, Böhne A, Schartl M, Volff J N, Galiana-Arnoux D
Abstract excerpt
Poeciliids, a family of live-bearing freshwater fish, including among others platyfish, swordtails and guppies, fully illustrate the diversity of genetic sex determination mechanisms observed in teleosts. Besides unisexuality, a variety of sex-determining systems has been described in this group of fish, including male and female heterogamety with or without autosomal influence, as well as more complicated...
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