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A novel sex-determining QTL in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).
BMC genomics - 11 Mar 2015
Palaiokostas Christos, Bekaert Michaël, Khan Mohd G Q, Taggart John B, Gharbi Karim, McAndrew Brendan J, Penman David J
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BACKGROUND: Fish species often exhibit significant sexual dimorphism for commercially important traits. Accordingly, the control of phenotypic sex, and in particular the production of monosex cultures, is of particular interest to the aquaculture industry. Sex determination in the widely farmed Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is complex, involving genomic regions on at least three chromosomes (chromosomes 1,...
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