Article: Mapping of five candidate sex-determining loci in rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ).(Research article)(Report)

Authors: Mahmoud A Alfaqih [1,2]; Joseph P Brunelli [3]; Robert E Drew [4]; Gary H Thorgaard (corresponding author) [3]

Background

Teleost fishes have a variety of evolutionarily labile sex-determination systems and relatively undifferentiated sex chromosomes [1], and thus are interesting research models for the exploration of how sex-determining mechanisms evolve. The current view of the sex-determination cascade describes it as a gene hierarchy [2]. Genes that reside on top of this hierarchy have been recruited only relatively recently [3] and are only found in specific branches of the phylogenetic tree. Downstream genes are conserved between the ...

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