Sex control in fish: approaches, challenges and opportunities for aquaculture

AM Budd, QQ Banh, JA Domingos… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2015 - mdpi.com
At present, aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of animal food production and holds
great potential as a sustainable solution for world food security. The ability to control sex is …

Sexual plasticity: a fishy tale

H Liu, EV Todd, PM Lokman, MS Lamm… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Teleost fish exhibit remarkably diverse and plastic patterns of sexual development. One of
the most fascinating modes of plasticity is functional sex change, which is widespread in …

Stress, novel sex genes, and epigenetic reprogramming orchestrate socially controlled sex change

EV Todd, O Ortega-Recalde, H Liu, MS Lamm… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Bluehead wrasses undergo dramatic, socially cued female-to-male sex change. We apply
transcriptomic and methylome approaches in this wild coral reef fish to identify the primary …

Sex change in clownfish: molecular insights from transcriptome analysis

L Casas, F Saborido-Rey, T Ryu, C Michell, T Ravasi… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Sequential hermaphroditism is a unique reproductive strategy among teleosts that is
displayed mainly in fish species living in the coral reef environment. The reproductive …

Large-scale transcriptome sequencing reveals novel expression patterns for key sex-related genes in a sex-changing fish

H Liu, MS Lamm, K Rutherford, MA Black… - Biology of Sex …, 2015 - Springer
Background Teleost fishes exhibit remarkably diverse and plastic sexual developmental
patterns. One of the most astonishing is the rapid socially controlled female-to-male …

The genetics and epigenetics of sex change in fish

O Ortega-Recalde, A Goikoetxea… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Genomic analysis of Sparus aurata reveals the evolutionary dynamics of sex-biased genes in a sequential hermaphrodite fish

M Pauletto, T Manousaki, S Ferraresso… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Sexual dimorphism is a fascinating subject in evolutionary biology and mostly results from
sex-biased expression of genes, which have been shown to evolve faster in gonochoristic …

The need for speed: neuroendocrine regulation of socially-controlled sex change

MS Lamm, H Liu, NJ Gemmell… - Integrative and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Socially-controlled functional sex change in fishes is a dramatic example of adaptive
reproductive plasticity. Functional gonadal sex change can occur within a week while …

Induction of precocious females in the protandrous barramundi (Lates calcarifer) through implants containing 17β-estradiol-effects on gonadal morphology, gene …

QQT Banh, JL Guppy, JA Domingos, AM Budd… - Aquaculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Sex control is vital for the efficient breeding of aquaculture species. Barramundi (Lates
calcarifer) is a protandrous sequential hermaphrodite that naturally sex change from male to …

Comparative transcriptomics in East African cichlids reveals sex-and species-specific expression and new candidates for sex differentiation in fishes

A Böhne, T Sengstag… - Genome Biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Males and females of the same species differ largely in gene expression, which accounts for
most of the morphological and physiological differences and sex-specific phenotypes. Here …