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Production of YY rainbow trout males by self-fertilization of induced hermaphrodites.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Chevassus B, Devaux A, Chourrout D, Jalabert B
Abstract excerpt
Dietary administration of various estrogens for three months from swim-up stage resulted in excess of females, the remainder of the treated groups consisting of males and hermaphrodites. Mature hermaphrodites were self-fertilized or mated with standard males and females. These hermaphrodites and some of the estrogen-treated females proved to be genetic males; the frequencies of males obtained from their ova...
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