Aquaculture has been believed to be a major Chinese contribution to the world. In recent 20
years, genome and other genetic technologies have promoted significant advances in basic …

Elucidating the mechanisms of estrogens-induced immunomodulation in teleost fish is of
great importance due to the observed worldwide continuing decrease in pristine …

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 …

Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have
used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two …

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 …

A plethora of corroborative genetic studies led to the view that, across the animal kingdom,
the gene‐regulatory cascades triggering sexual development bear little resemblance to …

Sequential hermaphroditism is a unique reproductive strategy among teleosts that is
displayed mainly in fish species living in the coral reef environment. The reproductive …

Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death, is a critical component in maintaining
homeostasis and growth in all tissues and plays a significant role in immunity and …

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 …

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