Quantitative Trait Loci involved in sex determination and body growth in the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L.) through targeted genome scan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Loukovitis, Dimitrios ^a,d   Sarropoulou, Elena ^b   Tsigenopoulos, Costas S ^b   Batargias, Costas ^c   Magoulas, Antonios ^b   Apostolidis, Apostolos P ^d   Chatziplis, Dimitrios ^a   Kotoulas, Georgios ^b  

^a Department of Animal Production School of Agricultural Technology   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SEA BREAM; SEX DETERMINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPARUS AURATA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GONAD; GROWTH; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; DANIO RERIO; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; LATES CALCARIFER; PERCIFORMES; SERRANIDAE; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOMICS; GONADS; GROWTH; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEA BREAM; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551624871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016599     Document Type: Article

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