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Structure and Sequence of the Sex Determining Locus in Two Wild Populations of Nile Tilapia.
Genes - 29 Aug 2020
Triay Cécile, Conte Matthew A, Baroiller Jean-François, Bezault Etienne, Clark Frances E, Penman David J, Kocher Thomas D, D'Cotta Helena
Abstract excerpt
In domesticated strains of the Nile tilapia, phenotypic sex has been linked to genetic variants on linkage groups 1, 20 and 23. This diversity of sex-loci might reflect a naturally polymorphic sex determination system in Nile tilapia, or it might be an artefact arising from the process of domestication. Here, we searched for sex-determiners in wild populations from Kpandu, Lake Volta (Ghana-West Africa), and from...
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