Testicular inducing steroidogenic cells trigger sex change in groupers

Abstract Vertebrates usually exhibit gonochorism, whereby their sex is fixed throughout their lifetime. However, approximately 500 species (~ 2%) of extant teleost fishes change sex during their lifetime. Although phylogenetic and evolutionary ecological studies have recently revealed that the extan...

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Main Authors: Ryosuke Murata, Ryo Nozu, Yuji Mushirobira, Takafumi Amagai, Jun Fushimi, Yasuhisa Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Soyano, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Masaru Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90691-9