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A duplicated amh is the master sex-determining gene for Sebastes rockfish in the Northwest Pacific.
Open biology - 1 Jul 2021
Song Weihao, Xie Yuheng, Sun Minmin, Li Xuemei, Fitzpatrick Cristín K, Vaux Felix, O'Malley Kathleen G, Zhang Quanqi, Qi Jie, He Yan
Abstract excerpt
Teleost fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates and provide opportunities to study the evolution of sex determination (SD) systems. Using genomic and functional analyses, we identified a male-specific duplication of anti-Müllerian hormone (amh) gene as the male master sex-determining (MSD) gene in Sebastes schlegelii. By resequencing 10 males and 10 females, we characterized a 5 kb-long fragment in...
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