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Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species
12 Nov 2020
Abstract excerpt
A diverse array of sex determination ( SD) mechanisms, encompassing environmental to genetic, have been found to exist among vertebrates, covering a spectrum from fixed SD mechanisms (mammals) to functional sex change in fishes (sequential hermaphroditic fishes). A major landmark in vertebrate SD was the discovery of the SRY gene in 1990. Since that time, many attempts to clone an SRY ortholog from nonmammalian...
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