Sex determination mechanisms and sex control approaches in aquaculture animals

XY Li, J Mei, CT Ge, XL Liu, JF Gui - Science China Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Aquaculture is one of the most efficient modes of animal protein production and plays an
important role in global food security. Aquaculture animals exhibit extraordinarily diverse …

Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads

Q Pan, T Kay, A Depincé, M Adolfi… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To date, more than 20 different vertebrate master sex-determining genes have been
identified on different sex chromosomes of mammals, birds, frogs and fish. Interestingly, six …

Diversity and Convergence of Sex-Determination Mechanisms in Teleost Fish

J Kitano, S Ansai, Y Takehana… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Sexual reproduction is prevalent across diverse taxa. However, sex-determination
mechanisms are so diverse that even closely related species often differ in sex …

A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards 'sexomics'

M Stöck, L Kratochvíl, H Kuhl… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Triggers and biological processes controlling male or female gonadal differentiation vary in
vertebrates, with sex determination (SD) governed by environmental factors or simple to …

Repeated translocation of a supergene underlying rapid sex chromosome turnover in Takifugu pufferfish

A Kabir, R Ieda, S Hosoya, D Fujikawa… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies have revealed a surprising diversity of sex chromosomes in vertebrates.
However, the detailed mechanism of their turnover is still elusive. To understand this …

A supernumerary “B-sex” chromosome drives male sex determination in the Pachón cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus

B Imarazene, K Du, S Beille, E Jouanno, R Feron… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Sex chromosomes are generally derived from a pair of classical type-A chromosomes, and
relatively few alternative models have been proposed up to now. 1, 2 B chromosomes (Bs) …

Genomic Anatomy of Homozygous XX Females and YY Males Reveals Early Evolutionary Trajectory of Sex-determining Gene and Sex Chromosomes in Silurus …

T Wang, G Gong, Z Li, JS Niu, WX Du… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Sex chromosomes display remarkable diversity and variability among vertebrates.
Compared with research on the X/Y and Z/W chromosomes, which have long evolutionary …

Roles of anti-Müllerian hormone and its duplicates in sex determination and germ cell proliferation of Nile tilapia

X Liu, S Dai, J Wu, X Wei, X Zhou, M Chen, D Tan… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Duplicates of amh are crucial for fish sex determination and differentiation. In Nile tilapia,
unlike in other teleosts, amh is located on X chromosome. The Y chromosome amh (amh Δ …

Mixed-stock analysis of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus): a tool for identifying management units and complex migration dynamics

D Bekkevold, F Berg, P Polte, V Bartolino… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We developed and validated a mixed-stock analysis (MSA) method with 59 single-
nucleotide polymorphisms selected from genome-wide data to assign individuals to …

Generation of a chromosome‐level genome assembly for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and characterization of its sex‐determining genomic region

AJ Jasonowicz, A Simeon, M Zahm… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) is a key species in the North Pacific
Ocean and Bering Sea ecosystems, where it also supports important fisheries. However, the …