A polygenic hypothesis for sex determination in the European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1049-1057

  Vandeputte, Marc ^a,b   Dupont Nivet, Mathilde ^a   Chavanne, Hervé ^c   Chatain, Béatrice ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c Panittica Pugliese ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FISH; GENETIC MODEL; HERITABILITY; MALE; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASS; CROSSES, GENETIC; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FRANCE; MALE; OOCYTES; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA;

DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 34250704921     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.072140     Document Type: Article

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