Anemonefishes are monogamous protandrous hermaphrodites that live in societies
structured by size-hierarchies that function as breeding queues. Within each group, the …

Fishes are the only vertebrates that undergo sex change during their lifetime, but even within
this group, a unique reproductive strategy is displayed by only 1.5% of the teleosts. This …

Here we address the following questions: 1) What is known about the physiological
mechanisms underlying sex determination and sex-specific behaviors in teleost fish …

Sexual fate is no longer seen as an irreversible deterministic switch set during early
embryonic development but as an ongoing battle for primacy between male and female …

Sexual fate can no longer be considered an irreversible deterministic process that once
established during early embryonic development, plays out unchanged across an …

Fish show extraordinary sexual plasticity, changing sex naturally as part of their life cycle or
reversing sex because of environmental stressors. This plasticity shows that sexual fate is …

Many fish species exhibit natural sex change as part of their life, providing unique
opportunities to study sexually-differentiated social behaviors and their plasticity. Past …

Teleost fishes show an extraordinary diversity of sexual patterns, social structures, and
sociosexual behaviors. Sex steroid hormones are key modulators of social behaviors in …

Background: Encompassing about half of the 60,000 species of vertebrates, fish display the
greatest diversity of sex determination mechanisms among metazoans. As such that phylum …

Males and females exhibit innate sex-specific mating behaviors, which are established
developmentally. In mammals and birds, phenotypic sex differences in mating behaviors are …