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Turnover of Sex Chromosomes in Celebensis Group Medaka Fishes.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 23 Oct 2015
Myosho Taijun, Takehana Yusuke, Hamaguchi Satoshi, Sakaizumi Mitsuru
Abstract excerpt
Sex chromosomes and the sex-determining (SD) gene are variable in vertebrates. In particular, medaka fishes in the genus Oryzias show an extremely large diversity in sex chromosomes and the SD gene, providing a good model to study the evolutionary process by which they turnover. Here, we investigated the sex determination system and sex chromosomes in six celebensis group species. Our sex-linkage analysis...
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