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Might Gene Duplication and Neofunctionalization Contribute to the Sexual Lability Observed in Fish?
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2021
Edgecombe Jonika, Urban Lara, Todd Erica V, Gemmell Neil J
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Sex determination and differentiation varies widely across vertebrates, but is most dramatically diverse in fishes. Among fishes sex reversal and sex change are observed in 41 teleost families spanning 7 orders. These sex-changing fish perhaps highlight better than any other system that sex determination is not the narrow and fixed construct we once thought, but a plastic trait that is better viewed as a reaction...
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