A diverse array of sex determination (SD) mechanisms, encompassing environmental to
genetic, have been found to exist among vertebrates, covering a spectrum from fixed SD …

A great deal of information is known regarding the process of sex differentiation in fish, and
the mechanisms involved in primary sex determination are now beginning to be defined. A …

Teleost fishes are characterized by a diversity of sexual patterns. Hermaphroditism, the
expression of both male and female reproductive function in a single individual, generates …

Fish sex could be reversed at the undifferentiated stage of gonad by administration of
exogenous estrogen (E2) or blockade of endogenous estrogen synthesis with aromatase …

The effect of fish meal (FM) substitution with fermented soybean meal (FSBM) in the diets of
the carnivorous marine fish, black sea bream, Acanthopagrus schlegelii, was investigated …

A 9-week feeding experiment was carried out on juvenile black seabream Acanthopagrus
schlegeli to evaluate the effects of dietary replacement of fish oil by soybean oil on fish …

Abstract Black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli Bleeker, a marine protandrous
hermaphrodite, is functional male for the first two years of life but begins to sexually change …

Abstract The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), with a system of XX/XY sex determination,
is a worldwide farmed fish with a shorter sexual maturation time than that of most cultured …

In hermaphroditic fish, the ovotestis can respond to external stimuli so that only one type of
gonadal tissue (either ovarian or testicular tissue) will remain reproductively active and the …

Protandrous black porgy fish, Acanthopagrus schlegeli, have a striking life cycle with a male
sex differentiation at the juvenile stage and male-to-female sex change at 3years of age. We …