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 …

Unusual diversity of sex chromosomes in African cichlid fishes

WJ Gammerdinger, TD Kocher - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
African cichlids display a remarkable assortment of jaw morphologies, pigmentation
patterns, and mating behaviors. In addition to this previously documented diversity, recent …

A high quality assembly of the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) genome reveals the structure of two sex determination regions

MA Conte, WJ Gammerdinger, KL Bartie, DJ Penman… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Tilapias are the second most farmed fishes in the world and a sustainable
source of food. Like many other fish, tilapias are sexually dimorphic and sex is a …

Characterization of a Y‐specific duplication/insertion of the anti‐Mullerian hormone type II receptor gene based on a chromosome‐scale genome assembly of yellow …

R Feron, M Zahm, C Cabau, C Klopp… - Molecular Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Yellow perch, Perca flavescens, is an ecologically and economically important species
native to a large portion of the northern United States and southern Canada and is also a …

Chromosome-scale assemblies reveal the structural evolution of African cichlid genomes

MA Conte, R Joshi, EC Moore, SP Nandamuri… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background African cichlid fishes are well known for their rapid radiations and are a model
system for studying evolutionary processes. Here we compare multiple, high-quality …

Identification of sex chromosome and sex-determining gene of southern catfish (Silurus meridionalis) based on XX, XY and YY genome sequencing

S Zheng, W Tao, H Yang, TD Kocher… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Teleosts are important models to study sex chromosomes and sex-determining (SD) genes
because they present a variety of sex determination systems. Here, we used Nanopore and …

RADSex: A computational workflow to study sex determination using restriction site‐associated DNA sequencing data

R Feron, Q Pan, M Wen, B Imarazene… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of sex determination and sex chromosome organization in nonmodel species has
long been technically challenging, but new sequencing methodologies now enable precise …

Sex control in aquaculture: concept to practice

HP Wang, ZG Shen - Sex control in aquaculture, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding sex determining (SD) mechanisms and related concepts in a wide range of
fish species is critical for sex control and large‐scale monosex production in aquaculture, in …

Sex chromosome and sex locus characterization in goldfish, Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)

M Wen, R Feron, Q Pan, J Guguin, E Jouanno… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Goldfish is an important model for various areas of research, including neural
development and behavior and a species of significant importance in aquaculture …

Sex locus and sex markers identification using whole genome pool-sequencing approach in the largemouth bass (Micropterus Salmoides L.)

M Wen, Y Zhang, S Wang, F Hu, C Tang, Q Li, QB Qin… - Aquaculture, 2022 - Elsevier
The mechanism of sex determination in teleost evolves in an amazing speed contrary to
mammals and birds. Different populations of the same species may use different sex …