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Do sex reversal procedures differentially affect agonistic behaviors and sex steroid levels depending on the sexual genotype in Nile tilapia?
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology - 1 Apr 2017
Gennotte Vincent, Akonkwa Balagizi, Mélard Charles, Denoël Mathieu, Cornil Charlotte A, Rougeot Carole
Abstract excerpt
In Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus, phenotypic males and females with different sexual genotypes (XX, XY, YY) have particular behavioral and physiological traits. Compared to natural XX females and XY males, XY and YY females and XX males expressed higher level of aggressiveness that could be related to higher levels of 17β-estradiol and 11-ketotestosterone, respectively. Our results suggest that the presence...
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