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Polygenic sex determination in the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni.
BMC genomics - 26 Oct 2016
Roberts Natalie B, Juntti Scott A, Coyle Kaitlin P, Dumont Bethany L, Stanley M Kaitlyn, Ryan Allyson Q, Fernald Russell D, Roberts Reade B
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BACKGROUND: The East African riverine cichlid species Astatotilapia burtoni serves as an important laboratory model for sexually dimorphic physiology and behavior, and also serves as an outgroup species for the explosive adaptive radiations of cichlid species in Lake Malawi and Lake Victoria. An astounding diversity of genetic sex determination systems have been revealed within the adaptive radiation of East...
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