Diversity and plasticity of sex determination and differentiation in fishes

Sexual Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1-3, 2013, Pages 115-125

  Kobayashi, Y ^a,b   Nagahama, Y ^c   Nakamura, M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Ocean Exposition Commemorative Park Management Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gobiid fish; Gonadal sex differentiation; Sex change; Sex determination; Tilapia; Wrasse

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GOBIIDAE; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FISH; GONAD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FISHES; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; GONADS; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MALE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84871203103     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342009     Document Type: Review

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