A Trans-Species Missense SNP in Amhr2 Is Associated with Sex Determination in the Tiger Pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes (Fugu)

Kamiya, Takashi; Kai, Wataru; Tasumi, Satoshi; Oka, Ayumi; Matsunaga, Takayoshi; Mizuno, Naoki; Fujita, Masashi; Suetake, Hiroaki; Suzuki, Shigenori; Hosoya, S.; Tohari, Sumanty; Brenner, Sydney; Miyadai, Toshiaki; Venkatesh, Byrappa; Suzuki, Yuzuru; Kikuchi, Kiyoshi

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002798

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A Trans-Species Missense SNP in Amhr2 Is Associated with Sex Determination in the Tiger Pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes (Fugu)

Published in PLoS Genetics • Jul 12, 2012

Authors:

Takashi Kamiya

Wataru Kai

Satoshi Tasumi

Abstract

Heterogametic sex chromosomes have evolved independently in various lineages of vertebrates. Such sex chromosome pairs often contain nonrecombining regions, with one of the chromosomes harboring a master sex-determining (SD) gene. It is hypothesized that these sex chromosomes evolved from a pair of ...

Subject

Takifugu rubripes

Biology

Fugu

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